Renoir said once that nothing was so difficult, and at the same time so exciting, to paint, as white on white.
Color Quotes
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
Calvin: Dad, how come old photographs are always black and white? Didn’t they have color film back then? Dad: Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs are in color. It’s just the world was black and white then. Calvin: Really? Dad: Yep. The world didn’t turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it […]
Pink acts like Benzedrine on most men’s jaded chivalry
Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons. It always means they have a history.
Black is the queen of colors.
We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors but they all have to learn to live in the same box.
The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.
At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.
