Broads Quote by Nathan Goldstein

I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against…

— Fernand Leger

As much as you know it, and you know the method, you can pretty much do what you want. No idea is going to…

— Antonio Banderas

Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as a sign…

— John French Sloan

Line is the most powerful device of drawing.

— John French Sloan

I'm not interested in edges. I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and white. The edges happen because the forms get as…

— Ellsworth Kelly

If tone is granted to be subjected to control, why not line also, which has equal emotional significance? And if line, why not shapes…

— William Mortensen

I use geometric and mathematical ideas to organize material, but those are tools. The purpose of the work is not to expose that at…

— Lucinda Childs

Value gives the artist the means of showing subtle changes in a form's surface-state, and it helps clarify the relative distance between forms.

— Nathan Goldstein

Consider paint a film of light reflecting/absorbing material, and a colored paint a material which gives a particular, characteristic transmission of light via differential…

— Jo Baer

Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be…

— William Morris Hunt

We used to make patterns in the dirt, hanging our feet off the horse-drawn farm equipment. We made endless hourglass figures that I now…

— Ruth Asawa

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