“In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also in a slightly exaggerated form, in his painting, for the sake of truth, harmony and unity.” FormNaturalPaintingSceneHarmonyUnitySakePainterLandscapeColourExaggeratedPrevailing Author:Walter J. Phillips
“Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.” ShouldArtTwoLinesSpacePaintingHarmonyRealismGreat Art Author:Arthur Wesley Dow
“The theme, or harmony, of a painting can be created by any one of its visual elements. A single colour... repetition of shapes... Light can be a theme.” LightPaintingShapesElementsHarmonyThemeVisualsColourRepetition Author:Mike Svob
“In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story." And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature.” StoriesLawLiteratureStylePositionObjectsPaintingHarmonyCriticalDelicateCompositionObservingRemarksExquisiteHints Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton