One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings. — Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin Copy Share Image
Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth. — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment. — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
That's the best pigment, anyways: something that works for everyone because it's just so rich. — Pat McGrath Copy Share Image
The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way… — Squeak Carnwath Copy Share Image
My mantra is, 'Don't be afraid of color.' What did it do to you? Do a color testing in alternate kinds of… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
Scan your subject for things that are clearly impossible. After all, paint isn't magic! If you see that certain elements in the… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Water and stones. Those are the unpromising ingredients of two very different endeavors... painting, because artists' pigments are made from fluids... mixed… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Filmmakers don't work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don't last very long. They fade away. In 200… — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my… — Billy Eckstine Copy Share Image
The essential characteristic of digital information is that it can be manipulated easily and very rapidly by computer... Computational tools for transforming,… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music… — Ted Shawn Copy Share Image
Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools… — John Logan Copy Share Image
For me, painting is that magical material, that beautiful stuff that was invented, the ground-up pigments in oil which makes it very… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Mattia was right: the days had slipped over her skin like a solvent, one after the other, each removing a very thin… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
Lately, however, on abandoning the brindled and grey mosquitos and commencing similar work on a new, brown species, of which I have… — Ronald Ross Copy Share Image
“Scientists found that there are exactly as many skin pigment colors to the various races of this world as there are different… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel... — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper. — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments. — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Each day brings its own colours to be chosen, mixed, pigments of joy, happy moments, smiles and laughter… And which will you… — John McLeod Copy Share Image
I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
Yes, linseed oil. I used to use poppy oil, but I have heard that poppy oil is given to cracking pigment too,… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
Luminosity is a quality dependent as much on technique as on the physical properties of individual pigments. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image