“What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude.” PeopleKindStoriesKnowingColorLongingAncientFortitudeMigrationAncient HistoryDislocation Author:Isabel Wilkerson
“Our prejudices - we all have them - are part of our personality structure. The problem is that our prejudices may lie lurking at the bottom of the subterranean mind where the slowly ooze up and color our thinking without our knowing it.” ThinkingMindMayProblemLyingKnowingColorPersonalityPrejudiceStructureBottomLurking Author:Gerry Spence
“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.” MatterOrderVisionKnowingColorConceptsImpressionVisualsLatterTerminology Author:Wilfrid Sellars
“artists try to say things that can't be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling; a taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.” TryingSaidFeelingsArtistLeftKnowingColorSweetTasteLongingPainfulFrustrationCaptureFragileGestures Author:Alan Alda
“Babies aren't born knowing differences in color, gender, religions. They're taught those things. They're taught them at home. They're taught in the schools. They're taught in the churches. They're taught in the mosques, in the synagogues.” HomeSchoolBornDifferencesChurchKnowingTaughtColorBabyGenderMosquesSynagogue Author:Geraldine Ferraro
“Evolution tells us how to survive; art tells us how it's possible still to live even while knowing that we and all we love will someday vanish. It says there's beauty even in grief, freedom even inside the strictures of form and of life. What's liberating isn't what's simplest; it's the ability to include more and more shadows, colors and possibilities inside any moment's meeting of self and world.” WorldArtStillsSelfMomentsFormAbilityGriefKnowingPossibilityColorEvolutionShadowMeetingsSomedaySimplestLiberating Author:Jane Hirshfield
“The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases.” KnowsWantNeedsWritingHandsEyeNamesAbilityKnowingColorPleaseEarsPhysicsPainterLandscapeGesturesRhetoric Author:Jane Hirshfield
“I am no longer interested in seeing and knowing everything all at once in my work. Technically I select the area of focus and if it's possible I try to make an amalgamation of every shape and color in the picture so that it acquires a circular movement: from representation to abstraction, from life to death, and vice-versa.” IfsTryingKnowingFocusSeeingMovementColorShapesAreasVicesAcquireRepresentationAbstractionSelectVice VersaKnowing EverythingAmalgamation Author:Olivo Barbieri