“The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.” DoeLightSunPositionColorPaintingBearsLandscapeComparisonBrightnessVivacity Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.” IfsThinkingDoePositionPainting Book:The Shape of Content Source: The Shape of Content
“Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under the light.” LightRememberEnemyPositionPaintingAccountsColourGray Author:Eugene Delacroix
“My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word snob comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: painting, tapestries, rare books, smart dresses, dances, gardens, country houses, correct cuisine, and pretty women.” MindLittlesBookCountryFactsHouseInterestNumbersPositionPaintingSmartGardenDressesTrainImmenseCuisineSnobTapestryPretty WomanCountry Houses Author:Frank Crowninshield
“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
“I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.” IfsFeelsWellsPersonsBitsMillionsPositionStudentsPaintingWallPoundsTrappedPosters Author:Damien Hirst
“Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.” PositionPaintingContrastStemOrganisation Author:Roy Lichtenstein
“Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background.” WayLongCertainPositionPaintingFingersBackgroundsNecksWorking ItFabricThrust Author:Lillian Bassman