Best color & particular Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.”

Ifs Doe Stills Matter Would Be America Young Particular Color Advantage Skins Privilege Tone Wheels Celebration Whiteness Skin Tone Color Wheel

Author:Eric Liu

“Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.”

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Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I can’t understand it when people say they don’t like a particular color. . . . How on earth can you not like a color?”

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Author:Dale Chihuly

“Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and color (in other words, style) must be in harmony with the poem?”

People Knows Form Know How Style Particular Color Draws Harmony Drawing Execution

Author:Paul Gauguin

“Consider paint a film of light reflecting/absorbing material, and a colored paint a material which gives a particular, characteristic transmission of light via differential absorption and reflection. Call this reflected quality 'luminance' and measure it in millilamberts. This measure is as real and present as height, breadth, depth; and I find the phenomenon equally sumptuous and convincing. . . . Painted light, not color, not form, not perspective, or line, not image, or words, or equations, is painting. I make paintings which do not represent light, they are light.”

“I think the ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border. I think the sooner we renounce the sanctity of these many identities and try to identify ourselves with the human race the sooner we will get a better world and a safer world.”

Thinking World Trying Humans Race Security Identity Particular Color Ultimate Primaries Borders Human Race Allegiance Sanctity Renounce

Author:Mohamed ElBaradei

“While the impressionists make a table to give one particular moment and subordinate the life of the table to its resemblance to this moment, we synthesize every moment (time, place, form, color-tone) and thus build the table.”

Giving Moments Form Particular Color Tables Tone Subordinates Resemblance Impressionists

Author:Umberto Boccioni

“The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'”

Firsts Kind Artist Fighting Sky Particular Color Paint Driving Paris Hotel Grey Arriving Disneyland Cloudy Cloudy Day Cloudy Skies

Author:John Hench

“It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than big, personal or particular rather than socially significant.”

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Book:Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There

“Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.”

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Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Once in his life, a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth, I believe. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience, to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon it. He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it. He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. He ought to recollect the glare of noon and all the colors of the dawn and dusk.”

Source: The Way to Rainy Mountain

“Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were the individuals who exploded feminist theory into the directions that has made it more powerful. So I see us as the leaders not just of Black people and Black women in terms of feminism but in terms of the movement as a whole.”

“What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? Only one answer seems possible— significant form. In each, lines and colors combined in a particular way; certain forms and relations of forms, stir our aesthetic emotions. These relations and combinations of lines and colors, these aesthetically moving forms, I call ‘Significant Form’; and ‘Significant Form’ is the one quality common to all works of visual art.”

Way Art Seems Moving Form Certain Lines Answers Common Emotion Quality Objects Particular Color Relation Significant Combination Visuals Aesthetic Provoking Visual Art

Author:Clive Bell

“In the first place, an unjust law exists in this Commonwealth, by which marriages between persons of different color is pronounced illegal. I am perfectly aware of the gross ridicule to which I may subject myself by alluding to this particular; but I have lived too long, and observed too much, to be disturbed by the world's mockery.”

World Firsts May Persons Long Different Law Too Much Subjects Particular Color Illegal Unjust Ridicule Gross Disturbed Mockery Commonwealth Different Colors Unjust Laws

Author:Lydia M. Child

“Civil disobedience can help to focus attention on a particular injustice. It was used historically to highlight wrongs in society - turning ancient redwood forests into paper towels or preventing people from sitting down at lunch counters because of the color of their skin. On climate change, we have not seen strong leadership coming from Washington, DC.In particular the president has an enormous opportunity to follow up on his inaugural speech with a concerted course of action to aggressively take on a clean energy transition.”

“This film [ Blue is the Warmest Color] actually is the result of me talking with my producer Vincent [Maraval]. I gave him a bunch of ideas and then Vincent helped guide me and develop this particular film. I enjoy that rapport to have somebody else help guide me in my choices for the next film. The poetic way of looking at it is which project is going to choose me as a director.”

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Author:Abdellatif Kechiche

“With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.”

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Book:We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

Source: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

“Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it for myself with a color-coded board so I could see it.”

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Author:Rebecca Miller

“In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we did create Color of Change, an organization which focused on African-Americans in particular, because we felt that there was a big gap there in terms of online advocacy which had left the black community particularly vulnerable.”

Bigs Left Felt Black Term Community Particular Color Organization Focused Vulnerable African American Online Gaps Hurricanes Advocacy Aftermath Katrina Black Community Hurricane Katrina

Author:Van Jones

“Donald Trump is a man who was the star of a network reality show that helped to create templates for the abysmally biased way in which women and people of color, in particular women of color, have been treated in reality TV for the last decade and a half.”

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Author:Jennifer Pozner

“Let's start with the black glove. We felt it necessary being the fact that the Olympic Games, for the first time ever [in 1968], had been televised worldwide. The second thing is the fact that it was in Technicolor. Never had the games been shown in color before.We wanted it to be understood that we were representing America, but we were representing Black America in particular, so that's why we put the black glove on.”

Firsts Facts Wanted America Games Felt Black Particular Color Understood First Time Representing Gloves Olympic Games Black America

Author:John Carlos

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