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“Looking for the essence of beauty is comprehending and appreciating that quality in an object which is fairer and better than only what our eyes see or our ears hear, whether that be a patch of blue in an overcast sky, the fleeting laughter from a voice we love, or something as unexpected as the rainbow colors in a spot of oil on the driveway.”

Eye Voice Quality Beauty Sky Objects Color Laughter Appreciate Essence Ears Blue Oil Spots Unexpected Rainbow Fleeting Patches Comprehending Driveway Overcast Essence Of Beauty

Book:You Bring the Confetti

Source: You Bring the Confetti

“Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . . . Is this not form?”

Form Color Cold Silent Drawing Spots Construction Concealed Calculations

Author:Giacomo Puccini

“The most horrible question students ask: 'How do you paint copper?' 'How do you paint flesh or glass?' You paint everything the same way: Right color, right value, in right spot. There are no prescriptions.”

Way Values Asks Students Color Paint Glasses Flesh Horrible Spots Prescriptions Copper

Author:Sergei Bongart

“The purple light or glow, which appears roughly fifteen or twenty minutes after sunset... looks like an isolated bright spot fairly high in the sky over the place the sun has set, and then it quickly expands and sinks until it blends with the colors underneath.”

Looks Light Sun Sky Minutes Color Twenties Spots Sunset Isolated Fifteen Purple

Author:James Elkins

“It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.”

Done Artist Social Community Space Rooms Design Building Color Pride Taste Spots Gathering Historic Living Room Restoring Bad Taste

Author:Genevieve Gorder

“When you want to make the main color pure and bright, don't just keep adding bright colors on it. Just make the colors around the spot darker and dull. It will give the scene dramatical effects.I think the life is the same.”

Thinking Want Giving Life Is Effects Color Scene Pure Spots Dull Bright Colors

Author:Hiroko Sakai

“A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special kind.”

Kind Art Special Color Photograph Spots Works Of Art Unimportant

Book:Photomontages of the Nazi Period

Source: Photomontages of the Nazi Period

“The mechanics of putting one spot of color next to another, that is the fundamental thing.”

Next Color Fundamentals Spots Mechanic

Author:Charles Webster Hawthorne

“Here's an easy one: "Race is an entirely social construct." No, it's partially one, depending on how any given society seeks to define it and its implications. But there are basic things such as skin color and hair texture. Even a Martian who'd had no exposure to human "social constructs" would be able to spot those differences. But no Martian, as hard as he tried, could point at a "culture" or to "equality." Those are the social constructs. Those can't be measured in the same way as human DNA.”

Way Humans Hard Would Be Able Culture Given Social Easy Differences Race Color Hair Skins Spots Constructs Dna Exposure Implications Texture Skin Color Martians Basic Things

Author:Jim Goad