“I kind of enjoy the limits. If you've got no limits, you can do absolutely anything, it's very difficult, actually. I always enjoyed working with machines like color photocopiers and letter-pressing type settings, things where the limits are very apparent. You push the machine to do something, and it tries to do its best, and it usually has wonderful qualities all of its own. Then you get a sort of dialogue going, and the limitations become qualities.” IfsTryingKindEnjoyDifficultCan DoQualityWonderfulColorTypeLimitsLettersMachinesSettingDialogueSettingsEnjoyedLimitation Author:Dave McKean
“There was an author who titled his books by days of the weeks and another one that used colors. Then there was Edward Gorey who wrote the book The Gashlycrumb Tinies, about the untimely death of 26 Victorian children, each representing a letter of the alphabet. I thought what a great way to link the titles.” WayChildrenBookUsedWeekColorLettersTitlesLinksRepresentingAlphabetVictorianLetters Of The AlphabetUntimely Death Author:Sue Grafton
“I get letters from kids from all over the country. I always try to answer them because there were people I looked up to in my youth and just wanted to be in contact with. It's also important to realize that you find your role models in a lot of different places. I've never believed that your role models have to look like you. You can find them in all sort of colors, shapes and sizes.” PeopleTryingLooksImportantDifferentCountryKidsWantedRealizingAnswersRolesYouthColorLike YouShapesModelsLettersSizeContactRole ModelsDifferent Place Author:Condoleezza Rice
“The forward step must be made in silence. We detach ourselves from word forms - this can be accomplished by substituting for words, letters, concepts, verbal concepts, other modes of expressions: for example, color.” MadeFormSilenceStepsExampleColorExpressionConceptsLettersAccomplished Author:William S. Burroughs
“We can translate word and letter into color - [Arthur] Rimbaud stated that in his color vowels, words quote "words" can be read in silent color.” ColorLettersSilentTranslateArthurVowels Author:William S. Burroughs
“I need to be able to raise my hands up to turn the letters. That's probably the only limitation I have when it comes to gowns. I wear tight ones, I wear loose ones, I wear every color, and different fabrics.” NeedsDifferentHandsAbleTurnsColorLettersRaisesLimitationFabricGownsHands Up Author:Vanna White
“If we can make sure that that young boys starting at the age of three or four already knows their colors and their letters and are getting good preschool, and by the time they get into school they've got a good teacher and are getting the support that they need and are able to keep up with their classwork, that is going to do more to reduce the incarceration rate at the same time, obviously, as it increases the college enrollment rate.” IfsKnowsNeedsAgeAbleSchoolYoungThreeBoysSupportTeacherFourCollegeColorLettersIncreaseRateStartingGood TeacherIncarcerationPreschoolEnrollment Author:Barack Obama