"It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color."

Art, Light, State

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"It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color."

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Explore more quotes by Maxfield Parrish

"Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please. I had always wanted to do so, yet was never allowed because of the color capabilities of our lithographers. Now that I have done it, I don't think I'll ever go back."

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"I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist."

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"The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space."

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"There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one."

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"It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color."

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