Beam Quote by Alexander Pope

Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little…

— Joshua Reynolds

Color has such a friendly appearance, that I always see it with fresh delight, now with all its tints, like the spirits of the…

— Philipp Otto Runge

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

— William Hazlitt

Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Light and color are closely linked. The colors can make a crucial change in nature, if you switch from daylight to artificial light or…

— Verner Panton

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the…

— William Shenstone

Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.

— John Ruskin

For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.

— Michel Eugene Chevreul

It is general knowledge for anyone interested in color that subdued value, intensity and hue make for quieter, less adventuresome interiors. Stronger approaches need…

— Van Day Truex

The aesthetic dimension of the ideal state comes out in the idea of harmony, which is the classical idea of beauty as "concinnitas" or…

— Frederick C. Beiser

For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or…

— Samuel Alexander

Visual forms are not perceived differently from colors or brightness. They are sense qualities, and the visual character of geometry consists in these sense…

— Hans Reichenbach