“By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.” WayNaturalColorSimplicityImpressionToneCaptureSimplestPatches Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918 Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918
“The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down in color and line as simply and as powerfully as possible and so translates his impression into an aesthetic emotion.” KnowsTryingLinesEmotionColorSceneImpressionPainterAestheticTranslateSimplify Author:David Milne
“Nature, the sun itself, produces color effects... instantaneously. The impression of these evanescent visions is what we make desperate attempts to catch and fix by any means at hand. At such moments I am unconscious of materials, of style, of rules, of everything that intervenes between my perception and the object or idea perceived.” MeanIdeasMomentsHandsVisionSunEffectsStyleObjectsProduceColorMaterialsPerceptionImpressionDesperateUnconscious Author:Joaquin Sorolla
“I don't encourage any act of murder nor do I glorify in anybody's death, but I do think that when the white public uses its press to magnify the fact that there are the lives of white hostages at stake, they don't say "hostages," every paper says "white hostages." They give me the impression that they attach more importance to a white hostage and a white death, than they do the death of a human being, despite the color of his skin.” ThinkingGivingHumansFactsUseHuman BeingsWhiteColorPaperSkinsImportanceGive MeMurderPressesImpressionDespiteStakesGlorifyHostage Author:Malcolm X
“A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color” BeautifulMemoriesClearCuttingColorShapesRemainsImpressionFeaturesBeautiful WomenVery BeautifulAurasLiving Color Author:William Bolitho
“To put the matter in Aristotelian terminology, visual impressions are prior in the order of being to concepts pertaining to physical color, whereas the latter are prior in the order of knowing to concepts pertaining to visual impressions.” MatterOrderVisionKnowingColorConceptsImpressionVisualsLatterTerminology Author:Wilfrid Sellars
“The fact that people of all colors have been ensnared by the drug war helps to preserve the system as a whole from serious critique, as it creates the impression - at a glance - that the war is being waged in an unbiased manner, even when nothing could be further from the truth.” PeopleHas BeensWarWholeFactsHelpingColorSeriousDrugImpressionPreservesGlancesCritiqueWar On DrugsUnbiased Author:Michelle Alexander