“State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret.” FirstsStatesSpaceObjectsColorFlowInterpretation Author:Kay WalkingStick
“Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest - the interests of the white and of the colored people both and equally and to put forth my best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which will forever wipe out in our political affairs the color line and the distinction between North and South, to the end that we may have not merely a united North or a united South, but a united country.” PeopleMayEndsCountryStatesPoliticalDesireInterestLinesWhiteUnitedEffortForeverPolicyColorLet MeRegardSouthAffairDistinctionSouthernBehalfEarnestWipeTruestCountrymenBest EffortNorth And South Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“The mere state of being without funds is a neutral fact constitutionally an irrelevance, like race, creed, or color.” StatesFactsRaceColorMereFundCreedsIrrelevance Author:Robert H. Jackson
“If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution of the United States in English and write their names and to all persons of color who own real estate valued at not less than two hundred and fifty dollars and pay taxes thereon, and would completely disarm the adversary. This you can do with perfect safety. And as a consequence, the radicals, who are wild upon negro franchise, will be completely foiled in their attempts to keep the Southern States from renewing their relations to the Union.” IfsWritingPersonsTwoRealStatesNamesCan DoPerfectUnitedPayUnited StatesColorTaxesHundredConsequenceConstitutionRelationSafetyDollarsUnionsRadicalFiftySouthernEstatesAdversariesConstitution Of The United States Book:The Papers of Andrew Johnson: May-August 1865 Source: The Papers of Andrew Johnson: May-August 1865
“I use colors that have already been experienced through the light of day and through the state of mind of the total man. In other words, my colors are not colors that are laboratory tools which are isolated from all accidentals or impurities so that they have a specified identity or purity.” MenMindStatesUseLightIdentityColorToolsPurityState Of MindIsolatedLaboratoryImpurity Author:Mark Rothko