Beauty Commonly Comprises In The Same Pigment Delicacy Purity And
:
ON COLOURS AND PIGMENTS GENERALLY.
brilliancy; or depth, richness, and intensity. Delicacy and depth in
the beauty of colours are at variance in the production of all pigments,
so that perfect success in producing the one is attended with more or
less of failure in the other, and when they are united--as they
occasionally are--it is with some sacrifice of both. Hence the judicious
artist purveys for his palette at least two pigments of each colour, one
eminent for delicate beauty, the other for richness and depth.