“The most important thing that I think we've done this season is to show navy and gray in a very new way. Most men understand navy and gray as a navy blazer and a gray flannel trouser, but today, we're taking that very traditional color palette and putting it in a more modern shape.” ThinkingMenWayImportantDoneShowsTodayModernColorShapesSeasonsImportant ThingsTraditionalGrayNew WaysNavyPaletteBlazersFlannels Author:Joseph Abboud
“With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the art world since Velazquez.” WorldArtGivenModernMovementColorDiscoveryImportanceExcessVioletArt World Author:Joaquin Sorolla
“My rule of thumb is to strike a balance by sticking to the classics and playing with color, texture, and print to give them a modern update. On any given day, I keep it simple with jeans or chinos and a comfortable dress shirt.” GivingGivenSimpleModernColorBalanceComfortableDressesStrikesShirtsPrintJeansThumbsTextureUpdatesKeep It Simple Author:Tommy Hilfiger
“Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.” IdeasCuttingModernColorMachinesRussiaBlockCurvesNuanceIntervals Book:Pale fire Source: Pale fire
“I would go there quite frequently. I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.” ArtModernColorMetsMuseumsSupportiveModern Art Author:William Eggleston
“Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that should be the challenge to the modern painter not the didactic idealization of the past. The new generation should forge a new path.” ShouldLooksRealityPastArtistChallengesPathGenerationsModernColorPainterImperfectionModern LifeBrutalityNew GenerationNew PathsDidactic Author:Charles Baudelaire
“Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.” StillsIdeasMatterLinesModernColorNormalNo Matter WhatInhumanBetween The Lines Book:The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life Source: The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
“I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.” ThinkingShouldBelieveJesusI BelieveChurchModernColorHairHatsPassagesTestamentNew TestamentModern DayDay Life Author:Jimmy Carter
“To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.” MeanArtSpiritualityLiteratureModernColorInfiniteAvailableIntimacyAspirationRomanticismModern Art Book:The Painters of Modern Life Source: The Painters of Modern Life