“At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have said: 'Move your hands,' and I've said 'Look at your hands - different colors representing different people. You are the Rainbow People of God.'” PeopleLooksSaidDifferentSometimesHomeHandsBigsTogetherMovingBlackWhiteColorRaisesMeetingsSouthBlack And WhiteSouth AfricaRainbowDifferent PeoplesRepresentingDifferent Colors Author:Desmond Tutu
“They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.” SaidColorPaintingHugeSilentCriticsViolentGrayWrestlingOppressedStrokesSoberBrushesBrush Strokes Author:Antoni Tapies
“When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking.” LongSaidBlackCarColorCustomers Author:Peter Drucker
“It is often said that Anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us.” WorldWellsSaidDreamHappensTodayColorPrejudiceForestsAnarchismAnarchistTrue ColorsHatchet Book:Fugitive writings Source: Fugitive writings
“I have likewise made many 'skies' and effects - for I wish it could be said of me as Fuselli says of Rembrandt, 'he followed nature in her calmest abodes and could pluck a flower on every hedge - yet he was born to cast a steadfast eye on the bolder phenomena of nature'... We have had noble clouds & effects of light & dark & color.” MadeSaidLightEyeWishBornDarkSkyEffectsColorFlowerCloudsCastsNobleSteadfastPluckAbodeLight DarkDark Colors Book:John Constable's Correspondence Source: John Constable's Correspondence
“There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said to have color and a painting to have rhythm.” SaidUsedColorPaintingMusicalRhythmCompositionKinshipMusical Composition Author:Alton Tobey