“It is to Titian we must turn our eyes to find excellence with regard to color, and light and shade, in the highest degree. He was both the first and the greatest master of this art. By a few strokes he knew how to mark the general image and character of whatever object he attempted.” FirstsArtCharacterLightEyeTurnsObjectsColorMastersDegreesHighestMarkRegardExcellenceShadeStrokes Book:Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, Delivered at the Royal Academy Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, Delivered at the Royal Academy
“Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.” MindMadePastColorBearsMarkWeatherGrime Author:Junichiro Tanizaki
“Go, mark the matchless working of the power That shuts within the seed the future flower; Bids these in elegance of form excel. In color these, and those delight the smell; Sends nature forth, the daughter of the skies, To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.” HumansEyeEarthFormSkyColorFlowerDaughterMarkDelightSmellSeedsCharmProvidenceEleganceHuman Eyes Author:William Cowper
“We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean and secret.” CultureSecretColorMarkFolksSexualityIdentifyingSprayFloweringLavender Author:Judy Grahn
“Im not a fan of grilling meat, since that tends to dry it out, and I find grill marks leave a bitter taste. A good steak house will offer different options for preparation, and I would ask them to broil or pan-roast the steak and finish it with butter. It ends up a dark chocolate color and stays very juicy.” DifferentEndsAsksHouseDarkFansColorTasteOffersMarkBitterPreparationMeatDryChocolateSteakJuicyDark ChocolateGrillingBitter TasteSteak House Author:Tom Colicchio
“The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination though its badge of degradation does not mark them. It corrupts their lives, frustrates their opportunities and withers their education. In one sense it is more evil for them because it has confused so many by prejudice that they have supported their own oppressors.” IfsDoeSufferingEvilOpportunityWhitePoorPovertyColorWeightPrejudiceMarkDiscriminationConfusedHumiliationDegradationOppressorsDeprivationBadgesChained Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I've always felt the portrait is an occasion for marks to happen. I've never viewed the portrait as about the sitter. Even when I go to the National Portrait Gallery, I'm not thinking about the sitter; I'm thinking about how the artist chose that color or that highlight. It becomes about the time, place, and context.” ThinkingHappensArtistFeltColorMarkOccasionsPortraitsGalleryHighlights Author:Toyin Odutola