Gabriel Lippmann Quotes

If you take blue paint and yellow paint and you mix them, you get green paint. But if you take blue light and yellow light and mix them, you get white light. This is a shock to most people.

Light is therefore color.

Color is a big part of what I do. It's like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, but there are endless permutations; there's no limit to the number. Color on the walls or furniture can reflect back and distort the reality of the true colors of lipsticks and eye shadow.

Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man.

Black is not a color.

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins?

There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

I learned from Seurat this important thing about colour and light, that 'a light' can be built from colour. I learned a great deal about interaction, that 'a blue' in different parts will play all sorts of different roles.

My goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light.

I love the challenge of taking colors that are totally disparate and making them work together in an interesting way.

When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.

We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.

How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?

Purple and yellow are my colors.

You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

If I hold up a red square for 30 seconds and take it away, you will see a perfect green square. It's how the eye works. So if you want to paint a really good red painting, you have to strategically place in some green, so the eye is brought back.

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

Gray goes with gold. Gray goes with all colors. I've done gray-and-red paintings, and gray and orange go so well together. It takes a long time to make gray because gray has a little bit of color in it.

I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me.

In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.