Pigments

Mixing pigments is subtractive color - you start with a white reflective surface and add things which absorb some of the light (subtract it), changing what is reflected, in order to make color. ❋ Heather McDougal (2009)

The traditional lacquerware of Uruapan never really impressed me until I watched the transformation of a batea (shallow wooden bowl) into a work of art as the maestra explained each step of an arduous and delicate process, selecting the right low-resin wood, grinding pigments from the depths of the earth, mixing it with chia oil, and adding the final and most important ingredient: aje. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Painting manuals recommended varnishing certain pigments to slow deterioration. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They also agreed that, for certain pigments, this control was impossible to achieve. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Watin argued in the margins of the Supplément that the color resulting from the combination of red, blue, and yellow pigments is an indescribable and brownish color. ❋ Unknown (2006)

By combining results from these studies with those from genetic crosses she was able to localize genes for e.g. type of starch, storage protein, anthocyanin pigments on the individual chromosomes. ❋ Unknown (1983)

The synthesis of kernel pigments is controlled by the genes of the maize plant. ❋ Unknown (1983)

The stimulus was given by his discovery of a new group of beautifully coloured compounds, the so-called phthaleins, of which only the eosin pigments, highly important to industry, and the rhodamin dyes derived from them, may have particular mention here. ❋ Unknown (1966)

The correspondence between the effects of light on cellular combustion inhibited by carbon monoxide and on carbon-monoxide compounds of certain pigments closely related to blood pigments led, with the aid of a detailed mathematical analysis to the conclusion that the respiratory ferment is a red pigment containing iron, and that it is closely related to our own blood pigment. ❋ Unknown (1965)

The nine-strong group has identified genes that can be transported by a harmless bacterium into a plant's cells, without the need for the expensive Luciferins pigments from the Latin lucifer, "light-bringer", which are found in most bioluminescent organisms. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Cooking transforms colorless phenolic compounds into anthocyanin pigments, which is why the quince turns pink. ❋ Michelle Krell Kydd (2008)

(They call pigments like this "fugitive" and I always picture the color escaping off the canvas and going into hiding.) ❋ Unknown (2008)

Original pigments, that is, such as are not made up of two or more colours, are purer in hue and generally more durable than those compounded. ❋ George Field (N/A)

Whether used alone or in tint these are, if genuine, perfectly reliable, and comprise the list of those durable colours which may be called pigments of the first class. ❋ George Field (N/A)

By far the most costly of his pigments was the intense crimson which is manufactured out of the very spirit and, essence of cochineal. ❋ Edmund Gosse (1888)

When you paint a picture with a brush and pigments, that is on a single plane, it can stop at your gilt frame; but when you paint one with a pen and words, that is in ALL the dimensions, how are you to stop? ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)