Chiaroscuro Quote by Joshua Reynolds

The distinct blue, red, and yellow colors... though they have not the kind of harmony which is produced by a variety of broken and…

— Joshua Reynolds

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the…

— William Shenstone

He [the artist] ought to have 'these powerful organs of expression' - colour and chiaroscuro - entirely at his command, that he may use…

— John Constable

Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.

— John Ruskin

It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through…

— Raymond Loewy

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.

— Yuri Lotman

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there…

— Voltaire

Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.

— Dieter Rams

The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty. He should…

— Paul Dirac

When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating…

— Vincent Van Gogh

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd…

— Alexander Pope