“I think 'tradition' is in the past - and how can someone really 'fear' a color? A man may prefer navy to turquoise, but a self assured man could wear any color and he knows that. It's a distinction of confidence.” ThinkingKnowsMenMaySelfPastColorTraditionDistinctionAssuredNavyTurquoise Author:Jean Pigozzi
“Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away?” FirstsMayStillsSongSkyColorSpringWingsSpeedFlightSouthernChillBlastHueBluebird Book:Poetical works Source: Poetical works
“You may feel a sensation of floating. You may see colors, maybe no phenomena, it doesn't matter. You are absorbing power.” FeelsMayMatterColorSensationsFloatingVisualizationAbsorbing Author:Frederick Lenz
“To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.” MayMeanArtFeelingsFormSoundLinesMovementColorExpressionActivityOneselfEvoke Author:Leo Tolstoy
“When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like the model.” MayLosesColorModelsHarmonyRangeToneImitation Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“Strive for simplicity! Don't have the face a checkerboard of tints! Use such colors as nature uses, but not try to keep them distinct! Your work may be called monotonous, but one tone is better than many which do not harmonize.” TryingMayUseFacesColorStriveSimplicityToneMonotonousCheckerboard Author:William Morris Hunt
“Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue and green, or even a fleck or two of brown. Most people don't notice that.” PeopleMayTwoEyeColorBlueGreenRelatedBrownGrayShadeBlue EyesEye ColorBlue And GreenShades Of Blue Book:The Speed of Dark: A Novel Source: The Speed of Dark: A Novel
“We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment.” MayCountryTogetherColorSentimentsFlags Author:Nathan Bedford Forrest
“There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man's heart and soul, the man's worth and actions, determine his standing.” IfsMenWorldHeartMaySoulActionThis WorldColorStandingDetermineRecognitionGood ManCreedsNationalityHeart And SoulBad Man Book:The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations
“The reality is that the founding fathers were land speculators. The fact was that you couldn't vote in this country if you did not own land, and that was basically you had to be a white man who owned land. Now how did they get that land? They basically had to steal it from someone, and that would be probably the Indians. And so most of the initial founding fathers were, while they may have had some really nice ideas about democracy, they had a lot of issues with people of color. They had a lot of issues with people who held things that they coveted.” PeopleIfsMenMayIdeasCountryFactsRealityWould BeFatherWhiteDemocracyIssuesNiceLandColorVoteStealingWhite ManFoundingInitialsReally NiceSpeculators Author:Winona LaDuke
“Each minute bursts in the burning room,The great globe reels in the solar fire,Spinning the trivial and unique away.(How all things flash! How all things flare!)What am I now that I was then?May memory restore again and againThe smallest color of the smallest day:Time is the school in which we learn,Time is the fire in which we burn.” MaySchoolMemoriesRoomsFireMinutesColorUniqueAll ThingsBurningFlashSmallestGlobesSpinningFlare Author:Delmore Schwartz