“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
“In the evening I go up in the desert and spend hours watching the sun go down, just enjoying it, and every day I go out and watch it again. I draw some and there is a little painting and so the days go by.” LittlesEnjoyHoursWatchesSunPaintingDrawsEveningDesert Author:Georgia O'Keeffe
“As the evening mist worked its way into the scene, creating a warm filter through which the lowering sun bathed its light, it was all I could to to keep painting, and not just put my brushes down and soak it all in. Which, of course, I did for a while anyway.” WayLightCoursesSunPaintingSceneCreatingDown AndWarmEveningBrushesMistFilters Author:Cory Trepanier
“Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)” IfsWholeEyeSunCreationPaintingIdealsCamerasPaintPoeticFlashDescribingWhole PictureCamera Obscura Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge