Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.

When we sit down to draw or paint the sun's rays, we generally use yellow because in the morning and the evening with the blue light scattered away so strongly you're left with a little bit of red and it comes out yellowish.

Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.

Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.

There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!

White does not exist in nature.

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

If you take blue paint and yellow paint and you mix them, you get green paint. But if you take blue light and yellow light and mix them, you get white light. This is a shock to most people.

For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.

Think colour! Know how to imagine it!

Turning to the colour-classification methodology: The starting point are the four pure colours red, yellow, green and blue; their in-between shades and scales of brightness result in colour schemes containing 16, 64, 256 and 1,024 shades. More colours would be pointless because it wouldn't be possible to distinguish between them clearly.

We never really perceive what color is physically!

The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you're trying to make.

Above all, keep your colors fresh!

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.

If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree by the colour of the objects surrounding it

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

Color cannot stand alone.

As a picture painted in yellow always radiates spiritual warmth, or as one in blue has apparently a cooling effect, so green is only boring.