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“Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red, white, and blue all over.”

Giving Mean Force White Powerful Color Taste Red Blue Colour Reserves Really Mean Good Taste Climax Red White And Blue

Author:John F. Carlson

“This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors obtainable, and squeezed them out upon the canvas to give it 'full force,' would be the greatest master, instead of being merely extravagant.”

Men Giving Art Different Would Be Force Color He Man Masters Canvas Conservation Masterpiece Being Me Extravagant Different Colors

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“The force that through the green fuse drives the flower drives my green age.”

Age Force Color Flower Green Fuse

Author:Dylan Thomas

“Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force. When less color and less intense color is present, trace amounts and subtle differences become highly significant and are strongly felt.”

Force Felt Differences Powerful Color Amount Significant Intense Psychological Colour Subtle

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to some ideal: short people, retarded people, people of other beliefs, colors, and religions are people of full status.”

People Thinking World Belief Force Loses Views Accepting Color Judgment Ideals Fundamentals Comparison Criteria Retarded Short People

Book:The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

Source: The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

“Hogarth ranks among those pictorial creators who have discovered the expressive force of the brushstroke as well as of color and its harmonies. He makes his entry into art as a reflection of Hals and Velasquez.”

Wells Art Force Color Masters Reflection Harmony Creator Entry Expressive Pictorial

Book:Art Treasures of the Louvre: Including a Short History of Painting in Europe from Cimabue to Toulouse-Lautrec

Source: Art Treasures of the Louvre: Including a Short History of Painting in Europe from Cimabue to Toulouse-Lautrec

“Our freedom must be buttressed by a homogeny equally and unchallengeably free, no matter what color they are, so that all the other inimical forces everywhere -- systems political or religious or racial or national -- will not just respect us because we practice freedom, they will fear us because we do.”

Matter Political Force Religious Practice Color No Matter What

Book:Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

Source: Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

“Far too often scripts are being written with race in mind, but the subject matter doesn't lend itself to any conversation on race. I applaud Jesse [Zwick] for having the courage to say, this [About Alex] just a story about friends, and they could be anyone. There's no specific color that forces a relationship to be discussed in any other manner.”

Mind Matter Stories Force Race Written Subjects Color Conversation Scripts Alex Subject Matter

Author:Nate Parker

“My reason [for making my own paint] is to force a real-time experience of the work. Most work today is experienced by reproduction, and more specifically by computer screen, like jpegs, but an RGB simulation of fluorescent will never fully accurately depict some colors. For example, our eyes are a lot more sophisticated than you might assume. You can feel a lot more going on on the surface of a canvas than you can on the surface of a screen.”

Feels Real Reason Might Eye Today Force My Own Example Color Computer Assuming Paint Surface Screens Sophisticated Canvas Reproduction Simulation Computer Screen

Author:Ryan McGinness

“Religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and, therefore, that all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience, unpunished and unrestrained by the magistrate, unless under color of religion any man disturb the peace, the happiness, or safety of society, and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity toward each other.”

Source: The Writings of James Madison: 1769-1783