Visual Contrast Quotes

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.

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone.

Never, never, never should the pocket square be of the same pattern as your ties. You are not 'Reverend Ike.'

As different as me and Sigourney look is as different as these two characters are. I'm not filling her shoes. I'm doing a part that has the same monsters, but it's a completely different movie.

Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art.

Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind.

The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

In music I still prefer the minor key, and in printing I like the light coming from the dark. I like pictures that surmount the darkness, and many of my photographs are that way. It is the way I see photographically. For practical reasons, I think it looks better in print too.

' Shoes' is very pink and yellow, and maybe orange, very bright, whereas 'Midnight Moonlight' is purple and blue and - I don't know - gray.

I design for social media. My customer reads blogs, is on social media, so I design with contrast in mind. An all-black shirt looks good on the shelf but not online.

For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.

This was pointed out to me by somebody who referred to the paintings of Rembrandt and his use of light: some elements are highlighted while others are obscured or even pushed back into the dark. And it's something that we do - we bring out elements that we want to emphasise.

Her glare was so intense that you completely forgot she was wearing pink.

I say that in narrative paintings one should mingle direct contraries close by, because they produce strong contrasts with one another, and all the more so when they are very close together; that is, the ugly next to the beautiful, the big to the small, the old to the young, the strong to the weak; in this way you will vary as much as possible and close by.

I just love the color purple on me, because it goes really well with my eye color.

The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.

The mixture of weird textures and organic surfaces creates an interesting dialogue.

If you take a Baroque commode and put a Baroque clock on top of it, maybe it is not so interesting as when you put a computer on top of it. Then you see both items in a new way.

I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray.