“The inspiration for my work comes from areas spanning the stark regions of Newfoundland to the lush and fertile valleys of the South. The landscapes offer me form; the people I've met in these places give them color.” PeopleGivingInspirationFormColorMetsOffersAreasSouthLandscapeRegionsValleysStarksFertileLush Author:Peter Sculthorpe
“If you look closely at any face, you'll start to see that different areas of the flesh tones are tinged with four other colors - red, green, purple and yellow.” IfsLooksDifferentFacesFourColorRedAreasGreenFleshToneColourYellowPurpleColor RedRed Green Author:Doug Dawson
“I always try and stay one step ahead of people, not looking like I looked like last week, so I can be as anonymous as possible and part of it is just for me. It is fun to just come up with new and bizarre colors for each area of your body and things like that, but there are some parts of it that I just keep wanting to negate myself. I hate waking up in the morning and recognizing the woman in the bathroom mirror.” PeopleTryingI CanBodyLastsHateFunStepsMorningWeekColorAreasI HateWake UpMirrorsCome UpYour BodyWakingBizarreRecognizingBathroomWaking Up In The Morning Author:Ani DiFranco
“Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be a small amount, not a large area, and with the color separated from other colors by black or white (which is formula for Damien Hirst's successful dot paintings, incidentally).” IfsWould BeBlackWhiteSuccessfulColorPaintingAmountLateAreasColourFormulasDotsBlack Or WhiteSmall Amounts Author:Matthew Collings
“In the landscape, colors are more neutral than you may think. Pay close attention to this. Small areas of rich color can make the whole painting look colorful.” ThinkingLooksMayWholePayAttentionRichColorPaintingAreasLandscapeColorful Author:Matt Smith
“Cause Jesus I do think did exist, and he was, I think, a guy who had interesting ideas in the Gandhi-type area, in the Nelson Mandela-type area, you know, relaxed and groovy; and the Romans thought, Relaxed and groovy?! No, no, no, no, no! So they murdered him. And kids eat chocolate eggs, because of the color of the chocolate, and the color of the... wood on the cross. Well, you tell me! It's got nothing to do with it, has it?” ThinkingKnowsWellsIdeasKidsGuyJesusCausesInterestingColorTypeAreasCrossesWoodsEggsChocolateRelaxedNelsonInteresting IdeasGroovyChocolate Eggs Author:Eddie Izzard
“I am no longer interested in seeing and knowing everything all at once in my work. Technically I select the area of focus and if it's possible I try to make an amalgamation of every shape and color in the picture so that it acquires a circular movement: from representation to abstraction, from life to death, and vice-versa.” IfsTryingKnowingFocusSeeingMovementColorShapesAreasVicesAcquireRepresentationAbstractionSelectVice VersaKnowing EverythingAmalgamation Author:Olivo Barbieri
“The New Deal never rethought the draconian racist immigration restriction policies of the 20s, of course, but its electoral base rested significantly on "ethnic" voters, whose activism was both hemmed in and rewarded by the Democrats. Southern and Eastern Europeans were included as secondary leaders of the new industrial unions, and as entitled citizens qualified for social security, unemployment compensation, and fair labor standards protections, even as workers of color were largely left out of key areas of the welfare state.” StatesCoursesLeftSocialDealsLeaderSecurityPolicyColorKeysCitizensStandardsAreasFairsLaborUnionsDemocratWorkersProtectionActivismImmigrationWelfareRacistVotersSouthernEntitledUnemploymentEasternSocial SecurityQualifiedCompensationRestrictionLeft OutWelfare StateNew DealDraconian Author:David Roediger
“There still aren't enough[ roles for women of color]. And I'd say that's the case, not only for African-American women, but for all women in the Hollywood game. It's just slim pickings, and a very challenging time for us. I think that's why more of us need to work our way behind the camera in order to create roles that really illuminate who women are. We still have room for growth in that area, without a doubt.” ThinkingWayNeedsStillsEnoughOrderGamesGrowthChallengesRoomsBehindsRolesCasesDoubtColorAreasHollywoodCamerasAfrican AmericanSlimAmerican WomanAfrican American WomenChallenging Times Author:Jada Pinkett Smith
“[Crack epidemic] definitely has impacted folks in my family, most definitely. I think that's true for most, if not all people, regardless of color, that grew up in and around areas that were closer to the nucleus of the crack epidemic.If you look at Baltimore or D.C., Detroit, Chicago, Oakland, like, Los Angeles.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksColorGrewGrew UpAreasMy FamilyFolksLos AngelesCracksChicagoDetroitEpidemicsBaltimoreNucleusOakland Author:Mahershala Ali
“Everything we think we know is really only perceived by our senses,' he explains patiently. 'The sounds we hear are just waves in the air; colors are electromagnetic radiation; your sense of taste comes from molecules that match a specific area on your tongue. Hey, if our eyes could access the infrared part of the light spectrum, the sky would be green and trees would be red. Some animals see in completely different ways, so who knows what colors look like to them. Nothing is really how we perceive it.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayLooksDifferentLightWould BeEyeSoundAnimalAirTreeSkyColorTasteRedAreasGreenWaveTongueAccessSensesHeyPerceiveDifferent WaysRadiationSpectrumMoleculesInfrared Book:Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life Source: Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life
“The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized as a peril and incarcerated en masse during World War ii for no really good reason by our most liberal president. Browns have been abused as the new slave labor on farms. The blacks, who did not come here willingly, are now, more than a century after emancipation by Lincoln, still suffering a host of slave like inequalities.” WorldHas BeensStillsDifferentWarReasonTogetherAmericaSufferingGrowsPresidentAnimalCenturyColorAreasLaborFunctionSlaveImmigrationInequalityWar Of The WorldsPotFarmsCrucialHostWorld War IiWorld War IPerilNationalityMeltingEmancipationWild AnimalMelting PotSlave Labor Author:Theodore Hesburgh