Shade Quotes

620 Shade quotes by 491 unique authors

It seems obvious that colors vary according to lights, because when any color is placed in the shade, it appears to be different from the… — Leon Battista Alberti
I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because it… — Leon Battista Alberti
I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly… — Fernand Leger
In preparing a study or a picture, it seems to me very important to begin by an indication of the darkest values... and to continue… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first vivid impression! Add… — William Morris Hunt
Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that. — Adam Gopnik
Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue… — Elizabeth Moon
When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades. — Dan Aykroyd
If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. The… — John Muir
One Divine Moment In The Sweet Sanctuary Of this shade We heard the birds The leaves in the breeze And waves as they played And… — Silent lotus
I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures… — Emily Dickinson
I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty that have been… — John Muir
I have seen oaks of many species in many kinds of exposure and soil, but those of Kentucky excel in grandeur all I had ever… — John Muir
Unless we are really trusting Him, where does the praise come in? This peace the Savior gives is not an artificial one. It is so… — Rees Howells
How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease! — Oliver Goldsmith
The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made. — Oliver Goldsmith
Hidden in the hollow Of His blessed hand, Never foe can follow, Never traitor stand; Not a surge of worry, Not a shade of care,… — Frances Ridley Havergal
I am stuck with my passion for the objective world, for the constantly shifting shades of meaning to the events of my life, to the… — Burton Silverman
Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee:… — Alphonse de Lamartine
And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and the darkness, Musing… — Alphonse de Lamartine
Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd; As a grand image love remains… — Alphonse de Lamartine
Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it… — Charles Caleb Colton
Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Who Wrote These Shade Quotes

491 authors contributed a total of 620 Shade Quotes, led by these top contributors: