Color Quote by Harvey Dunn Download Open image “When values are contrasting, use subtle color. When values are subtle, use contrasting color.” — Harvey Dunn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Color Subtle Use Values
Use the worst colour you can find in each place - it usually is the best. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Value choices are intuitive... It's fun to see how much you can get without leaning on contrast. — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
In choosing a colour one must realize that it changes in different aspects. — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
In my early work I didn't use much colour. I had no confidence about how I could do this. — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
I don't want any colour to be noticeable... I don't want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent... Full, saturated… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and so on. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force. When less color and less intense color is present, trace amounts and subtle differences become… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I decided I should use the most obvious colours - the basic colours with simple names: red, purple, yellow, pink. I don't distort the… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Give up the idea of 'color' for awhile! Consider masses - values, only... One dark and one light place in every picture. — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too. — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
Do not have an important dark and important light in the same picture they will destroy each other. — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
When you feel like putting something into your picture or do not know what is the matter with it, take something out. — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
A background can be painted in the same range of values as the foreground by reversing the light effect. In the shadow plane, paint… — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
A man of but mediocre talent who is furiously driven by deep desire will get somewhere. He who doesn't desire deeply isn't hurt much… — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents. — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
You must make the main thing in your picture appear most important. If anyone tells me my hat is more important than my head… — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
If you want to be clever in your picture, don't let anybody catch you at it. If they catch you, you're not clever. — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
To paint a mass simple and big you must keep out all the lights and darks that do not belong to its general value. — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The color of somebody's skin or the way he wears his hair or clothes has nothing to do with anything. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Lovecraft Country' is reclaiming all these pulp genres for people of color. — Misha Green Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
A well-fashioned day - with a beginning and an end, a purpose and a content, a color and a character, a feel and a… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color. — Al Capp Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image