Pigment Quotes
37 quotes by 34 authors
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Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment.
— Richard Rodriguez
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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
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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
— Boy George
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel...
— John Burroughs
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With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.
— Walter J. Phillips
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Luminosity is a quality dependent as much on technique as on the physical properties of individual pigments.
— Walter J. Phillips
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Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music.
— Walter J. Phillips
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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
Who Wrote These Pigment Quotes
34 authors contributed a total of 37 Pigment Quotes, led by these top contributors: