Tone Quotes - Page 40

You will have to scrutinize the model sharply to find the proportions - how the weight is supported, how each joint is functioning... Look for the color and tone and texture... how the light falls on the figure, especially the face.

Howard Pyle

Fall, Color, Light

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Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive for us - for that moment only.

Walter Pater

Change, Real, Passion

Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst.

Hector Berlioz

Music, Religious, Powerful

Hector Berlioz, Richard Strauss (2013). “Treatise on Instrumentation”, p.302, Courier Corporation

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To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of Kindred tones. To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of light tone against a somber background; to express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance.

Vincent Van Gogh

Stars, Sunset, Light

Letter to brother Theo, from Arles, September 1888.

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When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like the model.

Vincent Van Gogh

Color, May, Harmony

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On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

Paul Gauguin

Painting, Instruments

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Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.

Clarence Day

God, Father, Guests

CLARENCE DAY (1948). “THE BEST”

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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.

Paul Cezanne

Light, Sight, Doe

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By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.

Paul Klee

Color, Simplicity, Way

Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.232, Univ of California Press

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Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing of several colors and tones, or with the devaluation of spatial relationships and so on.

Paul Klee

Art, Space, Color

Paul Klee (1967). “Paul Klee, 1879-1940: A Retrospective Exhibition”

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It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or a personality.

Ben Shahn

Teaching, Voice, Personality

BEN SHAHN (1957). “THE SHAPE OF CONTENT”

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If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.

John Singer Sargent

Light, Lasts, Middle

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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.

Stan Smith

Real, White, Numbers

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A balanced tone on Europe will free us to address in depth the domestic, economic and social agenda which we neglected throughout the last parliament.

Kenneth Clarke

Europe, Depth, Agendas

"Edited highlights of Ken Clarke's address". www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2001.

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Heavens, how charming it is! There is now in the sky only the soft vaporous color of pale citron - the last reflection of the sun which plunges into the dark blue of the night, going from green tones to a pale turquoise of an unheard-of fineness and a fluid delicacy quite indescribable.

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Dark, Night, Reflection

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Strive for simplicity! Don't have the face a checkerboard of tints! Use such colors as nature uses, but not try to keep them distinct! Your work may be called monotonous, but one tone is better than many which do not harmonize.

William Morris Hunt

Color, Simplicity, Trying

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Faithiest resonated with me in many ways-not only because, like Chris, I am a gay former-Christian atheist who still thinks of my religious neighbors as fellow truth-seekers-but also because I deeply appreciated the book's nuanced approach to contentious issues. This is an important contribution to current debates, one which should be read not only for its valuable content but also for its exemplary tone: warm, engaging, optimistic, and humble.

John Corvino

Christian, Religious, Atheist

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When we turn the Bible into an adjective and stick it in front of another loaded word, we tend to ignore or downplay the parts of the Bible that don’t quite fit our preferences and presuppositions. In an attempt to simplify, we force the Bible’s cacophony of voices into a single tone and turn a complicated, beautiful, and diverse holy text into a list of bullet points we can put in a manifesto or creed. More often than not, we end up more committed to what we want the Bible to say than what it actually says.

Rachel Held Evans

Beautiful, Voice, Cacophony

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Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.

Harvey Dunn

Art, Faithful, Copying

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Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents.

Harvey Dunn

Dark, Light, Form

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I think going into 'New Moon,' I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who would be playing these roles. I had a sense of their rhythms and tones. 'Twilight' I was writing in a vacuum. We hadn't cast it yet.

Melissa Rosenberg

Twilight, Writing, Character

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Now you are come! You tremble like a star Poised where, behind earth's rim, the sun has set. Your voice has sung across my heart, but numb And mute, I have no tones to answer.

Amy Lowell

Stars, Heart, Voice

Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”

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Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.

William Carlos Williams

Love Is, Sound, Common

1954 The Desert Music, 'The Orchestra'.

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Therefore we well observe that the title of perfect cadence is attached only to a dominant that progresses to the main tone, because this dominant, which is naturally contained within the harmony of the main tone, seems, when it progresses to it, to return as if to its source.

Jean-Philippe Rameau

Perfect, Progress, Titles

"Nouveau système de musique théorique" by Jean-Philippe Rameau, Paris, (p. 59), 1726.

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One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while it is perhaps the most difficult attainment of mere style, is also no doubtful indication of personal character. There must be something essentially noble in an elective ruler who can descend to the level of confidential ease without forfeiting respect, something very manly in one who can break through the etiquette of his conventional rank and trust himself to the reason and intelligence of those who have elected him.

James Russell Lowell

Character, Break Through, Style

James Russell Lowell (2015). “Abraham Lincoln”, p.22, Sheba Blake Publishing

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