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I used the stormy gray and heather brown shadows from the Lilac Rose Eye Palette to create a soft smokey eye for Veronica Beard's Spring 2013 show. The look was dramatic but delicate. -- Bobbi Brown
Green Giant contained a very strong and clear site and building design concept. Green Giant had strong formal, aesthetic and programmatic concepts, coupled with a good understanding and incorporation of 2030 Palette design strategies. -- Edward Mazria
A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs. -- Joel Sternfeld
I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures. -- Annie Leibovitz
You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life. -- Mstislav Rostropovich
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. -- Jackson Pollock
Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette. -- Tom Hanks
Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette. -- Barbara Januszkiewicz
I'm not here to affect you politically or socially. I'm here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes. -- Stephen Colbert
New York gives us a wide colour palette to cook from. We have cuisines from around the world, and that lets us pick and choose. -- David Chang
When you look at the world, the world isn't just one palette. It's a beautiful rainbow, and why not have someone to represent that rainbow? -- Joan Smalls
It's hard sometimes to take a step back and realize what's happened because you're always trying to move forward. You're always looking at the next palette. -- Alexander Wang
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. -- Marc Chagall
If you keep everything in the same palette of tone-on-tone neutrals, even a laid-back outfit of a slouchy sweater, jeans, and sneakers gives you a longer, leaner look. -- Brad Goreski
There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her. -- Robert Irwin
I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models. -- Camille Paglia
I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions. -- Lady Gaga
In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography. -- Martin Parr
I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine. -- Parker Stevenson
Between the ages of six and nine, my palette was taking shape as well as my identity as a chef. It was then that I learned the difference between salty, sweet, sour and even spicy. -- Marcus Samuelsson
There are about 700 flavors that you can smell, but only five you can taste. A lot of times what you're perceiving as flavor has nothing to do with palette, but it's more to do with scents. -- Grant Achatz
I'm inspired by artists who use a limited palette, like painter Piet Mondrian, and the White Stripes, two musicians who create an incredible sound. Our food is starting to go back to a 'less is more' style. -- Graham Elliot
Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real. -- Amy Grant
Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think it's crazy for 'literary fiction' to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto. -- Jess Walter
I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like. -- A. R. Rahman
Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography. -- Martin Parr
I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument. -- Bobby McFerrin
The sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences. -- Wassily Kandinsky
Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature? -- Benjamin West
A world of colors on the palette remaining... wandering... on canvases still emerging. -- Wassily Kandinsky
Instead of using brushes all the time, try a palette knife to paint. -- Frank Bruno
The artist Nature often achieves greatest effect when not working with a full palette. -- Jim Perrin
Asexual, aseasonal, rectangular, slick palette of blacks, touches of pure grays and intense dark blues. -- Rad Hourani
I really like to keep my palette small but to be very intense, very myopic. -- Emma Donoghue
Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change -- Benny Bellamacina
Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form. -- John French Sloan
You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours. -- Anne Rice
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Winter's palette is clear and spare, restrictive enough to curb the excesses of even the most daring gardeners. -- Rosemary Verey
I think Americans such as Leviathan have done a lot to expand the sonic palette of black metal. -- Colin Marston
With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat. -- Winston Churchill
Your home should reflect who you are, so pick a palette that's close to your heart and run with it. -- Jonathan Adler
You can never have enough guitars. It's like women and shoes... it's nice to have different paints on your palette. -- Dave Genn
I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence. -- Brian De Palma
Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the colors in the palette, that just kills creativity. -- Jack White
I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay -- William Butler Yeats
Black is always elegant. It is the most complete colour in the whole world, made of all the colours in the palette. -- Riccardo Tisci
The camera will never compete with the brush and palette until such time as photography can be taken to Heaven or Hell. -- Edvard Munch
Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush. -- Scott Weiland
I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative. -- Patrick Ness
A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for. -- Josephine Baker
Usually I'm thinking about the palette. I'm thinking about the color for the most part, then I'll start thinking about composition and movement. -- Steven Soderbergh
Thoth, Hermes, the stylus, the palette, the pen, the quill endure, though our books are a floor of smouldering ash under our feet. -- Hilda Doolittle
The painter's only solid ground is the palette and colors, but as soon as the colors achieve an illusion, they are no longer judged. -- Pierre Bonnard
Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors. -- Rick Steves
I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette." -- Jessica Simpson
I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could... -- Wassily Kandinsky
My best beauty secret is simple: Have the right palette and the right colors and remember, you need so much less makeup than you think. -- Jessalyn Gilsig
The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories "? or you can use it to paint dreams. -- Robert Breault
You know you don't really need the band or the singer/songwriter in the same way, so you look at everything as part of your palette. -- DJ Spooky
As long as you work in a color palette and you style what you already have within that color palette, it's going to look good together. -- Emily Henderson
I never plan anything in an analytical way before I shoot, but when I look back there seems to be kind of a primary color palette. -- Alex Prager
How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did - sly dog! -- Aubrey Beardsley
I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer. -- Michael Patrick King
Color, like everything else concerning visual expression, usually boils down to a gift, an innate sensibility and sensitivity. Ultimately, artists develop their own palette and color sense. -- Scott Kahn
I don't want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion - and to raise money. -- Sebastiao Salgado
Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years! -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make. -- Denzel Washington
Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them. -- Mercedes McCambridge
My palette contains a warm and cool of each primary, plus four modifiers: Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Blue-Violet and Phthalo Yellow-Green just mix as I go for each painting. -- Matt Smith
A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by the look of coloured slurries on the palette. -- James Elkins
I need boundaries. In the modern studio there are a bunch of instruments around me, and I can simulate anything I can't play, so sometimes the palette feels too big. -- Trent Reznor
I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art. -- T. Allen Lawson
As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do. -- Rhys Ifans
Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint. -- Dean Mitchell
I've made clothes my whole life, but I was just naive about the fashion world. But I think it's successful because I've been really involved. Picking the samples, inspirations, color palette. -- Gwen Stefani
Advances in technology have opened up possibilities in the cultural realm throughout history. I'm intrigued by developments in technology - as an artist it gives me a new palette to explore. -- Janet Echelman
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I've built my wardrobe color palette around red, so I'm happy with it, but I do get pangs when I see beautiful brunettes. I've already been blue, green, black, and blonde. -- Florence Welch
One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result. -- Vincent Van Gogh
I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of their own, and I understand that time erases whiteness altogether. -- Barbara Kingsolver
I always tell the younger filmmakers and students: Do it like the painters used to...Study they old masters. Enrich your palette. Expand the canvas. There's always so much more to learn. -- Martin Scorsese
I use those expectations as a color on my palette, a certain temperature in the room. You can use those expectations for the great punchline, but also for a great painting, in society. -- Kehinde Wiley
I play enough other mad people, as well and some sane people, to vary the palette of what's scrabbling around in my head and soul to bring to the floor, as a storyteller. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
The terrain of Adam's Mountain provides a palette unique to the region. Rather than typical mountain slope play, the course is broad and open, allowing for special golf experiences on every single hole. -- Tom Weiskopf
Anything that exists on the human palette is, from my point of view, fair game for artists to portray. You don't have to go see it if you don't want to, so don't go. -- Tobin Bell
Most of the time I dress depending on my mood. I just throw on whatever I feel like wearing at the time, which tends to come from the palette of black, grey or red. -- Kate Moss
Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour. -- John French Sloan
I maintain that the expression of junk and objects has an intrinsic value, and I see no need to look for aesthetic forms in them and to adapt them to the colors of the palette. -- Arman
My days could be described as an ever changing palette of blues, greens, browns, and golds. Mostly because of surfing and garden-gazing. On tour, the colors are desaturated by florescent lights and dull grey carpets. -- Jason Mraz
People with an impoverished vocabulary live an impoverished emotional life; people with rich vocabularies have a multihued palette of colors with which to paint their experience, not only for others, but for themselves as well. -- Tony Robbins

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