Tonal Range Quotes

Quality doesn't mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. That's not quality, that's a kind of quality. The pictures of Robert Frank might strike someone as being sloppy-the tone range isn't right and things like that-but they're far superior to the pictures of Ansel Adams with regard to quality, because the quality of Ansel Adams, if I may say so, is essentially the quality of a postcard. But the quality of Robert Frank is a quality that has something to do with what he's doing, what his mind is. It's not balancing out the sky to the sand and so forth. It's got to do with intention.

In the real world there are many tones, from white at one extreme, through a large number of medium tones to black at the other extreme. To achieve a three-dimensional effect on paper you need just three - white, black and medium gray.

Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black-which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you've got white, pick it where you've got black, and then find all those colors in between. Get those colors down, and you'll be able to express almost any emotion on the guitar.?

I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

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

What I like about the piano is that it's a beautiful hybrid instrument in the sense that it can sound very warm but also very cold.

The most important thing in imaging for me is the dynamic range. The dynamic range means the tones that you can capture from highlights to dark and the bits, the depth of color that you can capture.

I probably use more grays than any other artist in the history of art.

Black and white means photography to me. It's much easier to take a good color photograph, but you can get more drama into a black and white one.

The fabric of a garden is determined as much by its textures as by its tonal range and architectural flair.

'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.