“Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.” MeanLanguageParticularColorOrdinaryShadeIncapableDescribing Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein
“I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same - lighting, color, structure, and so on - certainly traditional and ordinary problems.” ProblemFiguresColorPaintingOrdinaryStructureTraditionalLandscapeDistinctionLightingFigure Painting Author:Wayne Thiebaud
“There are some people who don't conform to the signals. An ordinary well-regulated locomotive slows down or pulls up when it sees the red light hoisted against it. Perhaps I was born color blind. When I see the red signal -- I can't help forging ahead. And in the end, you know, that spells disaster.” PeopleKnowsWellsI CanEndsHelpingLightBornColorOrdinaryRedBlindDisasterSpellsConformSignalsSlow DownPull UpsForgingRed LightsLocomotivesForging Ahead Author:Agatha Christie
“The American spring is like the country itself: abundant, rich, flowing over you like a full tide. ... Azaleas were suddenly ablaze. White dogwoods stood like brides in the wood - these trees of all colors were new to me; one does not meet them in Europe, and dogwood cannot even be transplanted to other continents. White and pink magnolias, yellowish rhododendrons, all of them lived happily side by side with our ordinary lilacs and lilies of the valley - the Russian symbols of spring.” DoeCountrySidesWhiteRichTreeColorSpringOrdinaryEuropeWoodsSymbolsOver YouValleysTidesContinentsBridesLiliesLilacMagnoliasAzaleas Author:Svetlana Alliluyeva
“In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness--a color, a weight, a texture--that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions.” ThinkingMindTogetherUsedSimpleEmotionConsciousnessColorSpeechPerceptionOrdinaryWeightEmbraceComplexesIncludingAffairSensationsItemsTexturePsychologist Author:Jacques Barzun
“By the combination of lines and colors, under the pretext of some motif taken from nature, I create symphonies and harmonies that represent nothing absolutely real in the ordinary sense of the word but are intended to give rise to thoughts as music does.” GivingDoeRealLinesTakenColorOrdinaryHarmonyCombinationSymphonyPretextMotifs Author:Paul Gauguin
“I argue, based on metaphysical and physical considerations, that we should think of the fundamental parts of the world as a mix of intrinsic natures, rather like a paint-pot filled with a rainbow of colors, loosely mixed to give a richly varied, spatiotemporally inseparable, spread of qualities, and that this mixture is what gives rise to ordinary reality.” ThinkingWorldGivingShouldRealityQualityColorOrdinaryFundamentalsFilledPaintSpreadArguingConsiderationPotRainbowMetaphysicalMixturesInseparable Author:L.A. Paul
“A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.” ArtistColorShapesOrdinaryGardenPlantIntentionComplexesLandscapeUnusualAestheticGardeningPlasticVolumeDoomedTrue HappinessDisappearance Author:Roberto Burle Marx