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“My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.”

Littles Use Left Color Painting Finished Tiny Brushes Matisse Renoir

Book:Past tense: diaries

Source: Past tense: diaries

“My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will.”

Ifs Giving Long I Can Different Left Black Rooms Acting Stage Color Painting Directors Red Green Paint Metaphor Brown Editing Really Great Purple Acting In Movies Red And Black

Author:Scott Glenn

“Can anybody tell me why reporters, in making mention of lady speakers, always consider it to be necessary to report, fully and firstly, the dresses worn by them? When John Jones or Senator Rouser frees his mind in public, we are left in painful ignorance of the color and fit of his pants, coat, necktie and vest - and worse still, the shape of his boots. This seems to me a great omission.”

Mind Stills Seems Left Ignorance Color Politician Fit Shapes Dresses Painful Reports Pants Boots Speakers Worn Reporters Senators Coats Omission Vests Neckties

Book:Ginger-Snaps

Source: Ginger-Snaps

“It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me.”

Left Color Intensity Revealing Intervention

Author:Bram van Velde

“I was wondering about my eyes; one of my eyes--the left--saw everything golden and yellow and orange, and the other eye saw shades of blue and grey and green; perhaps one eye was for daylight and the other was for night. If everyone in the world saw different colors from different eyes there might be a great many new colors still to be invented.”

Source: Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches

“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.”

Trying Said Feelings Artist Left Knowing Color Sweet Taste Longing Painful Frustration Capture Fragile Gestures

Author:Alan Alda