Chiaroscuro Painting Quotes & Sayings

All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective. — Eugene Delacroix

Lord, I have learned to seek You early. Not only early in the day but also early in every situation that arises. Help me to put my hope in You immediately in all circumstances so that discouragement never takes root. — Stormie O'martian

One wonders what the proper high-brow Romans ... read into the strange utterances of Lucretius or Apuleius or Tertullian, Augustine or Athanasius. The uncanny voice of Iberian Spain, the weirdness of old Carthage, the passion of Libya and North Africa. — D.H. Lawrence

Human nature makes it easy to bicker like children, but the human heart makes it possible to squelch the noise our head creates. — Alex Gaskarth

Eye contact is what keeps us civilized. — Caroline Kepnes

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future. — Adolf Hitler

When Galileo made his astonishing discovery of mountains on the moon, his telescope didn't actually have enough magnifying power to support that finding. Instead, he recognized the zigzag pattern separating the light and dark areas of the moon. Other astronomers were looking through similar telescopes, but only Galileo "was able to appreciate the implications of the dark and light regions," Simonton notes. He had the necessary depth of experience in physics and astronomy, but also breadth of experience in painting and drawing. Thanks to artistic training in a technique called chiaroscuro, which focuses on representations of light and shade, Galileo was able to detect mountains where others did not. — Adam M. Grant

Death strips all men of dignity. — Tobsha Learner

Mass: The quantity of matter in a body; its inertia, or resistance to acceleration. — Stephen Hawking

So I am concerned about the amount of time we have to make it, cause it doesn't matter how much money you have, you can't create more time. — Matthew Vaughn

The stock market cares about only one thing above all else: anticipated earnings. If companies make more money, their share prices eventually rise. The stock price is simply a reflection of a company's earning power. Everything else is noise. — Peter Mallouk

If you ever find a man who is better than you are - hire him. If necessary, pay him more than you pay yourself. — David Ogilvy

I remember so vividly the first song I ever wrote. It was called 'Different People.' — Gwen Stefani

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. — Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin

The passionate reactions of people to a painting, the exclamation, 'Oh, this is wonderful,' may, even if meant in a positive way, entirely destroy the chiaroscuro, the mystical hidden weaving of fantasy which the artist needs ... — Marie-Louise Von Franz