Tints Quotes
33 quotes by 28 authors
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
— Lord Byron
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Color has such a friendly appearance, that I always see it with fresh delight, now with all its tints, like the spirits of the light,…
— Philipp Otto Runge
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The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.
— William C. Bryant
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I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live…
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of…
— William Merritt Chase
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A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing…
— Lydia M. Child
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Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold.
— Walter Scott
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
— Tertullian
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Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one…
— William Morris Hunt
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What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring…
— George Eliot
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The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the adaptability…
— Ernst Gombrich
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The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape. The other birds that arrive about the same…
— John Burroughs
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Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke When round…
— Samuel Rogers
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By close inspection... you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists have raised the…
— Joshua Reynolds
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The spectator, as he walks the gallery, will stop, or pass along. To give a general air of grandeur at first view, all trifling, or…
— Joshua Reynolds
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Strive for simplicity! Don't have the face a checkerboard of tints! Use such colors as nature uses, but not try to keep them distinct! Your…
— William Morris Hunt
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One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest…
— John James Audubon
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The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of…
— Bill Vaughan
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