Gelett Burgess Quotes

Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.

Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensations.

There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye; the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are.

The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color?

Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.

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

Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

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.

Drawing is of the Spirit and color of the Senses.

An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour sensations. So that light does not exist for the painter.

Color cannot stand alone.

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.

Light is therefore color.

Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.

Color deceives continuously.

Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.

The eye deals with excess more easily than the stomach does.

At least 15 percent of human females possess a genetic mutation that gives them an extra (fourth) type of color photoreceptor - and this allows them to discriminate between colors that look identical to the majority of us with a mere three types of color photoreceptors.

There is no criterion by which to recognize what is a color, except that it is one of our colors.

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

Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.

And red is not the color of apples or roses or the dresses that pretty girls wear in the summertime. That is not the color of red at all.

The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.