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“What I could have done in real life only by throwing a bomb which would have led to the scaffold I tried to achieve in painting by using color of maximum purity. In this way I satisfied my urge to destroy old conventions, to disobey in order to re-create a tangible, living, and liberated world.”

World Way Real Done Order Achieve Color Painting Real Life Satisfied Purity Bombs Urges Throwing Conventions Maximum Renewal Tangible Liberated

Author:Maurice de Vlaminck

“Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.”

Men Feels Feelings Action Order Color Poet Judging Former Posts Latter Yield Exes Lively

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man.”

Source: pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation

“The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.”

Should Firsts Lasts Order Given Color Needed Add Last Words Finishing Precaution Finishing Touches

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“In order to change a color it is enough to change the color of its background.”

Enough Order Color Backgrounds Colour

Author:Michel Eugene Chevreul

“The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a water-color is inferior to an oil, or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. [emphasis added] Let us rather accept joyously and with gratitude everything through which the spirit of man seeks to an ever fuller and more intense self-realization.”

“My closet is in perfect order at home. All my dress shirts, all my casual shirts. All my suits, they're color coordinated. All my ties are color coordinated.”

Home Order Perfect Color Dresses Suits Shirts Ties Closets Casual

Author:Mark Teixeira

“How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.”

Said Order Language Color Curse Rhetoric Monk Profanity

Author:Francois Rabelais

“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.”

Matter Order Vision Knowing Color Concepts Impression Visuals Latter Terminology

Author:Wilfrid Sellars

“The great thing about the moon landing is that my grandmother got the first color TV in order to be able to see the moon landing that was in black and white.”

Firsts Able Order Black White Color Tvs Moon Great Things Grandmother Black And White My Grandmother Landing Moon Landing

Author:Alfonso Cuaron

“The pleasure a man gets from a landscape would [not] last long if he were convinced a priori that the forms and colors he sees are just forms and colors, that all structures in which they play a role are purely subjective and have no relation whatsoever to any meaningful order or totality, that they simply and necessarily express nothing....No walk through the landscape is necessary any longer; and thus the very concept of landscape as experienced by a pedestrian becomes meaningless and arbitrary. Landscape deteriorates altogether into landscaping.”

Ifs Men Long Play Lasts Form Order Walks Pleasure Roles Color Concepts Relation Structure Convinced Meaningful Landscape Meaningless Subjective Arbitrary Totality Pedestrians Landscaping

Author:Max Horkheimer

“Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is THERE, you must assault each of his senses, in turn, with color, sound, taste, and texture. If your reader feels the sun on his flesh, the wind fluttering his shirt sleeves, half your fight is won. The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his senses, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events. He cannot refuse, then, to participate. The logic of events always gives way to the logic of the senses.”

“Obama said they've had some glitches with the Affordable Care website. I'll tell you something. If you order a pair of pants online and they send you the wrong color, that's a glitch. This is like a Carnival cruise, for God's sake!”

Ifs Said Care Order Color Sake Online Pairs Pants Website Affordable Cruise Carnivals Glitches

Author:David Letterman

“Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.”

Pain Past Order Color Painful Holding On Painful Experiences

Author:Bill Crawford

“There still aren't enough[ roles for women of color]. And I'd say that's the case, not only for African-American women, but for all women in the Hollywood game. It's just slim pickings, and a very challenging time for us. I think that's why more of us need to work our way behind the camera in order to create roles that really illuminate who women are. We still have room for growth in that area, without a doubt.”

“The information is there, you may not perceive it, but it does affect the lower orders. There are places where it just peaks out. It is like the color spectrum, it just simply goes beyond where you can perceive it any more but it is still going on. If you decide that the invisible continuation of the color spectrum is important to your sense of what reality is about, then you would want to extend it. Extend it as far as you could, as an aesthetic.”

Ifs Want May Doe Stills Important Reality Order Information Color Invisible Perceive Aesthetic Spectrum Continuation

Author:Jerry Garcia

“Printing and transporting paper is very expensive, and e-books eliminate the expensive four-color printing, the higher quality paper, the ocean shipping, the customs clearance, the inventory, answering the telephone, writing up the orders, picking, packing and shipping and managing all of these functions. So we eliminate a huge number of costs and the chance that those books won't sell.”

Writing Book Order Chance Numbers Quality Four Color Huge Higher Cost Paper Ocean Function Sells Expensive Customs Telephones Printing Packing Inventory Shipping Huge Numbers Clearance

Author:Dan Poynter