Quotes About Complementary Colors

#1. There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating in sparks, dream patterns, figures whimsical and figures grotesque, shifting and clad in complementary colors, to appease the indignant cups and rods of the retina.

Gelett Burgess

#2. To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones ...

Vincent Van Gogh

#3. I am always in the hope to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors - colors which marry each other ... complement each other as a man and a woman do.

Vincent Van Gogh

#4. An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him.

Charles E. Burchfield

#5. How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

Lytton Strachey

#6. When I was young, all the politicians looked like ancient Latin teachers or greengrocers. They were mumbly, stumbly men with their hair blowing in their eyes, walking into trees, opening the wrong door. They had no idea how to present themselves.

Dylan Moran

#7. Colors close together on the color wheel are analogous and will make a calm room. Colors that are farther apart are complementary and add drama.

David Bromstad

#8. No language on earth speaks as comprehensively as photography, always providing that we follow the chemical and optic and physical path to demonstrable truth, and understand physiognomy.

August Sander

#9. I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation

Henri Matisse

#10. TITANIA My Oberon! what visions have I seen! Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.

William Shakespeare

#11. Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.

Veronica Roth

#12. Anything is possible if you believe you deserve it.

Shirley Maclaine

#13. But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there'll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms in the grass, sweetest of all fungi.

William Carlos Williams

#14. If my golf game was a prize fight, they'd stop it.

Bob Hope

#15. With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture.

Olga Kurylenko

#16. The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.

Simon Sinek