Pigment Quotes

37 quotes by 34 authors

Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment. — Richard Rodriguez
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. — Eric S. Raymond
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. — Boy George
Yes, linseed oil. I used to use poppy oil, but I have heard that poppy oil is given to cracking pigment too, so I use… — Edward Hopper
A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you see the depth,… — Carl Safina
Filmmakers don't work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don't last very long. They fade away. In 200 years there will… — Louis Malle
I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's… — Lee Krasner
Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange,… — H. Rider Haggard
Being beautiful is not in the way you dress nor on the pigments you put in your face. Being beautiful is being simple.All girls are… — Galileo Galilei
Each day brings its own colours to be chosen, mixed, pigments of joy, happy moments, smiles and laughter.... And which will you choose? For 'Life'… — John McLeod
What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel... — John Burroughs
With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Lately, however, on abandoning the brindled and grey mosquitos and commencing similar work on a new, brown species, of which I have as yet obtained… — Ronald Ross
I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember… — Paul Nurse
There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can imitate or approach.… — John Ruskin
I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being… — Billy Eckstine
Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature. — Walter J. Phillips
Luminosity is a quality dependent as much on technique as on the physical properties of individual pigments. — Walter J. Phillips
Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music. — Walter J. Phillips
Scan your subject for things that are clearly impossible. After all, paint isn't magic! If you see that certain elements in the subject are beyond… — Richard Schmid

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