~ To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships. ~
~ When they are done right, harmony appears by itself. The more numerous and varied they are, the more the effect is obtained and agreeable to the eye. ~
~ I've come to realize that where harmony is concerned, more can be achieved with less color. ~
~ Unfortunately, no rules can be given to guide him in difficult question of harmony; he must try different combinations, and not be content until he gets something which he feels at once is beautiful. ~
~ To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things. ~
~ A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and experience. Share this quote with a friend ~
~ To achieve vital harmony in a picture it must be constructed out of parts in themselves incomplete, brought into harmony only at the last stroke. ~
~ I want to bring my viewers to the harmony trail. When the viewer comes to see, they feel harmony. ~
~ The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it. ~
~ All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements. ~
~ In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also in a slightly exaggerated form, in his painting, for the sake of truth, harmony and unity. ~
~ Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease; and music, to create harmony, must investigate discord. ~