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I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray.
Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared ... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")
I like having some things very clear while other things are obscured ... so that it kind of keeps coming into and out of focus.
Just like life, it was only the contrast with darkness that had made it seem brighter.
I could not help staring back, for they made quite a contrast: Kate's pale skin and elegant purple suit, Nadira's dusky skin and exotic fiery sari.
"Do we clash?" Nadira said dryly.
"We certainly do," said Kate. "Would you like me to move?"
"Don't trouble yourself.
The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds.
(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.
All perception and thought is relative, operating by comparison and contrast.
Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
Turning up our light in the presence of those whose light is dim becomes the difference that makes the difference.
Seek for the boldest color possible, content is irrelevant.
Colour is everything, black and white is more.
He goes for stark versus accessorized, dark over bright, jewel tone instead of pastel, carnal over flirty.
The illusion of beauty - the rule of comparisons.
It's easy to become careless when making rough comparisons, but the alternative is a prissy attention to detail that takes all the fun out of writing.
When we look at things differently, things look different.
Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning.
Pay attention to your visual themes.
The distinct blue, red, and yellow colors ... though they have not the kind of harmony which is produced by a variety of broken and transparent colors, have the effect of grandeur.
A color is as strong as the impression it creates.
Dark with excessive bright.
Little more black, little more blue. And we'll just put that in using little crisscross strokes or
or little X's, whatever you want to call them. Whatever.
Things in black and white are far better than things in grey!!
The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.
Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.
Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background. They should at least, like the life of the anchorite, be as impressive to behold as objects in a desert, a broken shaft or crumbling mound against a limitless horizon.
Everything is comprehended in comparison.
I need contrast-the old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy.
To be quite accurate, human nature is simply what it is; it has its dark and its light sides. The sum of all colours is grey - light on a dark background or dark on light.
The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.
Don't look at the colors that are there, V. Look at the colors that aren't.
Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Consider the contrast between the well-bred,
There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.
Lightness can be found after the dark; appreciated when seldom seen.
Did I say that the world had never had better color? I left something out of account, a limping, crippled consideration which seems to lose ground as you reach beauty and Orizaba flowers, but soon you find it has preceded you.
First the colours.
Then the humans.
That's usually how I see things.
Or at least, how I try.
dark. Basically, the more you're aware of what you want these images to convey, the richer the images are going to be.
Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
Appearance gives rise to interpretation Interpretation gives rise to comparison Comparison gives rise to preference Preference gives rise to disappointment
With monochrome painting ... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.
For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc.
When you read Chekhov, everything has an even gray tone. When you read 'Family Life', everything has an even white tone. It is almost like when you paint on paper, and you can see the paper through the paint.
The contrast between good and evil fades by diluting the essence of one or the other.
Just a dark shape against an even darker background.
The beauty of differences far exceeds the ugliness of sameness
Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors ... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.
We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.
It's almost scary how stylish things can look if you take the color out - how much more you see the essence of things and how much more something can appear elegant.
DIFFERENT NOT LESS
Dullness is a kind of luxury.
Where there's black, even grey looks white,
The dew seemed to sparkle more brightly on the green leaves the air to rustle among them with a sweeter music and the sky itself to look more blue and bright. Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects.
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.
Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
Classical ornament here and there accentuated the contrast; caryatides and carved masks of comedy or tragedy looked
Do you see things in black and white, or are there shades of gray for you?"
"I hope there's gray ... Black and white make things easier, but only if you don't want to think.
Fine colour implies a unified relationship, in which each part is subordinate to the whole, and the transitions between them are felt to be as precious and beautiful as the colours themselves. In fact, the colours themselves must be continuously modified and broken as part of the transition.
The world should have been in Technicolour, but seemed more like black and white.
I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.
We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.
As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.
The difference between black and white is grace, not gray.
If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.
I'm always looking in the lighting to tell the story in a different way than it actually looks in real life because it's, for me, more contrast sometimes has to mean it's softer than normal.
Image is powerful, but image is also superficial.
I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.
Mama, black and white is boring, deep within the gray is where the real action is.
The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,
a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.
To some an extremely sharp picture may be positively painful, for it will perhaps disturb and break the train of thought, whereas a less-defined one would allow the mind to wander at its own sweet will.
I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.
It is springtime and I am blind ... Clarity depends on contrast - 134
Everything is about color. If you look at magazines and advertising and television, the thing you remember is the color.
Black and white has more emotion.
A person who's looking at a mountain far away doesn't notice the prettiness of a dandelion in front of them. A person who's looking at a dandelion in front of them doesn't see the beauty of a mountain far away.
Color is seductive. It changes as it interacts with other colors, it changes because of the light falling upon it, and it changes as it becomes larger in size.
In teaching color, you teach people how to look something and see the tone in it and break it down to be able to paint it and reproduce that color. But then, I'm psychedelic, so I look at color differently. I like colors that are in contrast with one another, so that they flicker back and forth.
The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings.
When you are comparing, you are really not looking at the sunset which is there, but you are looking at it in order to compare it with something else. So comparison prevents you from looking fully.
Colors are beautiful when they are significant.
For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must have radiance; it must be like those stones which Pyrenean shepherds use to light their pipes.
One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
Stand out because you think differently.
Stand out because you speak differently.
Stand out because you act differently.
Stand out because you work differently.
Stand out because you live differently.
Rich colors are typical of a rich nature.
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
By changing the context in which two things are compared, you submerge certain features and force others to the surface. "It
to judge darkness as bad or wrong is akin to judging whether up is better than down, or whether blue is better than red
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it's richest, form is at its fullest.
the world comes in flashes of black and white.
Beautiful light is born of a contrast to darkness ...
The clarity of perception
makes reality look as it is.
clarity of vision - especially
The sea/the same then as now: more blear than blue, more/blue than silver
Images, not words, capture feelings in faces; nothing
can ruin the atmosphere as easily as too much light.
A screen ... the scenery and the figures of life were perfectly represented, but with that bewitching, yet indescribably difference, which always makes a picture, an image, or a shadow, so much more attractive than the original.