Quotes about Light and Color

My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures. Votes: 4

Clearly, if we'd had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color. Votes: 4

Being a decorator allowed me to see what about people's environments made them happy. And what things they could do to have more light and color and joy in their daily lives. Votes: 4

You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees? Votes: 4

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space. Votes: 4

I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography. There are similar things - you have to be conscious of light and color and form - but it's a whole different medium. Votes: 4

Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark. Votes: 3

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. Votes: 3

I want people to be overwhelmed with light and color in a way they have never experienced. Votes: 3

Maybe in a way all living things are like flickering flames in a precarious night, always on the verge of being extinguished. Whether we kindle slowly but steadily, or go out in a brilliant burst of light and color, is our choice. Perhaps the most important choice we'll ever have. Votes: 3

I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant. Votes: 2

There was one man who was interested in the color of music, the connection between light and music, and that was Einstein. Votes: 2

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way. Votes: 2

If you want someone to feel warm, you dress them in a warm color and put a warm light on them and you get the picture. Sometimes, all that needs pushing a little bit to help tell the story. Votes: 2

As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever had to play some kind of ethnic stereotype or something that was typed specifically for a person of color. Votes: 2

Jewish history has been in my cultural DNA since I was a child growing up in post-war London. In the midst of that dark, gray, lamenting monochromatic world of the '50s, I had a sense that both Jewish and English history were full of color and light and animation. Votes: 2

Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors, producers etc. It's a very difficult business. There aren't a lot of Africans Americans or people of color in high positions in Hollywood that we can green-light films. Votes: 2

I pored over art books and absorbed the placidness of Monet's garden, the sparkling color of the Impressionists, the strength and solidity of Michelangelo's figures showing the titanic power of humans at one with God, Jan Vermeer's serene Dutch women bathed in gorgeous honey-colored light... My conviction grew that art was stronger than death. Votes: 2

I think my least favorite hair color was the hair color that I had in 'Pitch Perfect 2.' They really wanted me to be dark red, and I wanted to be lighter like I was in the first movie, but they didn't want that. But I rocked some light red for a year, after it faded. Votes: 2

When I was, like, 5 years old, I used to pray to have light skin because I would always hear how pretty that little light skin girl was, or I would hear I was pretty to be dark skin. It wasn't until I was 13 that I really learned to appreciate my skin color and know that I was beautiful. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

When my hair was dark for 'House,' that was the hardest to maintain because it was like every three weeks my light roots would start coming in. And you can't really just dye your hair one color brown because then it looks like a helmet on television, so then I had to have four colors of brown woven into my hair every three weeks. Votes: 2

We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts. Votes: 1

Light is therefore color. Votes: 0

Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it. Votes: 0

It is still color, it is not yet light. Votes: 0

In lantern-light My yellow Chrysanthemums Lost all their color Votes: 0

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light. Votes: 0

If light is the spiritual quality of painting, color is surely its heart and passion. Votes: 0

A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right Votes: 0

My goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light. Votes: 0

Flowers and flames. And color. Color as color, not as volume or light - only as color. Votes: 0

Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color. Votes: 0

I'm interested in creating a space through color contrasts, rather than by simple shadows of light and dark. Votes: 0

Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action. Votes: 0

I don't usually like a smoky eye; if there is any smokiness, it's got to be a light color. Votes: 0

It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself. Votes: 0

Care not what they say about the color of your skin let the brilliant light of your soul blind them. Votes: 0

A shaft of white light used properly can be far more effective than all the color in the world used indiscriminately. Votes: 0

Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain. Votes: 0

Color is life; for a world without color appears to us as dead. Colors are primordial ideas, the children of light. Votes: 0

In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color. Votes: 0

Give up the idea of 'color' for awhile! Consider masses - values, only... One dark and one light place in every picture. Votes: 0

It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values. Votes: 0

Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness. Votes: 0

I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an error. Votes: 0

The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses. Votes: 0

I hate when women wear the wrong foundation color. It might be the worst thing on the planet when they wear their makeup too light. Votes: 0

We are the Rainbow Generation,the Light split into color due to the physicality of observation;the One harmonious sound being distorted through differing notes... Votes: 0

Since light is best expressed through differences in color quality, color should not be handled as a tonal gradation, to produce the effect of light. Votes: 0

I started thinking about how rain is depicted in illustrations. In comics that use gouache or watercolor, they use light blue, so I started using that color. Votes: 0

Light is something like raindrops each little lump of light is called a photon and if the light is all one color, all the "raindrops" are the same. Votes: 0

Goethe argued there is no color in the physical world; there are only patterns of light and dark. These patterns are a sensation produced by our very souls. Votes: 0

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. Votes: 0

Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Votes: 0

Color is seductive. It changes as it interacts with other colors, it changes because of the light falling upon it, and it changes as it becomes larger in size. Votes: 0

It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color. Votes: 0

Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair Votes: -1