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  • I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.

    Art   Angel   Thinking  
    Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.171, Hamilton Books
  • One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings.

    Feelings   Use   Emotion  
  • The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

    Art   Poetry   Pigment  
    Ezra Pound, Harriet Zinnes (1980). “Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts”, p.152, New Directions Publishing
  • People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being.

    Past   Race   People  
    Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.19, Pan Macmillan
  • If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at the Prado in Madrid.

  • Scan your subject for things that are clearly impossible. After all, paint isn't magic! If you see that certain elements in the subject are beyond the limits of your pigments, try to form an idea beforehand of how you are going to handle those areas when you get to them.

    Ideas   Magic   Trying  
  • I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors.

    Race   Color   People  
  • God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.

    Light   May   Pigment  
  • A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you see the depth, make you feel the underlying emotion, make you sense the larger world. That, too, is the power of science: to sense and convey the depth and dimensionality of nature, to glance at the surface and to divine the shape of the universe around us.

    Light   Curiosity   Depth  
  • You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot be civilized until you learn. To be civilized is to know where you belong in the continuum of our art and your world. To surmount the past, you must know the past.

    Art   Philosophy   Drama  
    John Logan (2012). “Red”, p.13, Oberon Books
  • Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.

    Andrew Forbes, David Henley, Okakura Kakuzo “The Illustrated Book of Tea”
  • Luminosity is a quality dependent as much on technique as on the physical properties of individual pigments.

  • Values create dimension, but color usually receives all of the attention. When painting with oils, placing dark and light pigments next to each other can be an accident waiting to happen.

    Dark   Light   Color  
  • My mantra is, 'Don't be afraid of color.' What did it do to you? Do a color testing in alternate kinds of light you desire in the room because the pigment will change. And I refuse to believe that pale pale or white colors in a small room will buy you more square footage. Go with color all the way.

    Believe   Squares   Light  
    "Big, Easy Style: Creating Rooms You Love to Live In". Book by Bryan Batt, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.
  • Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music.

  • It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself. But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple.

    "The Colour of Magic". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1983.
  • The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments.

    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.

    Pain   Color   May  
  • Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way that gravity-bound sculpture is real. It is, however, real.

    Real   Water   Sculpture  
    Squeak Carnwath, John Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.) (1994). “Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery”
  • Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

  • Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

    "I Write What I Like: Selected Writings". Book by Steven Biko edited by Aelred Stubbs, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1978.
  • Potassium cyanide," says the talent wrangler as she leans over to pick up a paper napkin off the floor. "Found naturally in the cassava or manioc roots native to Africa, used to tint architectural blueprints in the form of the deep-blue pigment known as Prussian blue. Hence the shade 'cyan' blue.

    Roots   Blue   Paper  
  • Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

    H. Rider Haggard (2011). “She: A History of Adventure”, p.249, Modern Library
  • Water and stones. Those are the unpromising ingredients of two very different endeavors... painting, because artists' pigments are made from fluids... mixed together with powdered stones to give color... and the other is alchemy, the stone the ultimate goal.

    Artist   Color   Two  
  • The essential characteristic of digital information is that it can be manipulated easily and very rapidly by computer... Computational tools for transforming, combining, altering, and analyzing images are as essential to the digital artist as brushes and pigments to a painter.

    William J. Mitchell (1994). “The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-photographic Era”, p.6, MIT Press
  • My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.

    Fire   Earth   Sacred  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Mattia was right: the days had slipped over her skin like a solvent, one after the other, each removing a very thin layer of pigment from her tattoo, and from both of their memories. The outlines, like the circumstances, were still there, black and well delineated, but the colors had merged together until they faded into a dull, uniform tonality, a neutral absence of meaning.

    Tattoo   Memories   Color  
  • Lorenzo de' Medici seeks highly skilled, aesthetically oriented individual to conceive and implement several major public projects. You are a generalist with sound training in structural engineering, synthesis of pigments and Christian iconography. Some climbing involved

  • Yes, linseed oil. I used to use poppy oil, but I have heard that poppy oil is given to cracking pigment too, so I use it no longer.

    Oil   Use   Poppies  
    'Oral history interview with Edward Hopper' conducted by John Morse, 'Archives of American Art', Smithsonian Institution, June 17, 1959.
  • I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well, because otherwise my specter shall come out of him, like black smoke, like a demented giant, and pull him apart nerve by nerve. ... I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.

    Baby   Art   Husband  
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