A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 270
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CONTRASTE, HARMONY, AND REFLEXES, IN REGARD TO COLOURS.
Chap. CCLXX.—Gradation in Painting.
What is fine is not always beautiful and good: I address this to such painters as are so attached to the beauty of colours, that they regret being obliged to give them almost imperceptible shadows, not considering the beautiful relief which figures acquire by a proper gradation and strength of shadows. Such persons may be compared to those speakers who in conversation make use of many fine words without meaning, which altogether scarcely form one good sentence.