“I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.” SometimesCasesViolenceColourStrongestVividPalette Author:Brian De Palma
“Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.” RealLife IsViolenceTerribleReal LifeColourBeing CoolViolence In Movies Author:Quentin Tarantino
“In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.” SeemsFormForcePowerfulViolenceAwarenessExpressionConstantTerrorMythColourPrimitiveIrrelevantNiceties Author:Adolph Gottlieb
“For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness and violence. Not only had they the colour and authority of accomplished fact, they were invested with an immortality denied to facts.” MenMindFactsImaginationViolenceAuthorityAverageImmortalityColourAccomplishedDeniedPhantomsAverage ManVividness Author:May Sinclair
“[...] a morass of despair violence death with a thin layer of glass spread upon the surface where Love, a tiny crab with pincers and rainbow shell, walked delicately ever sideways but getting nowhere, while the sun [...] rose higher in the sky its tassels dropping with flame threatening every moment to melt the precarious highway of glass. And the people: giant pathworks of colour with limbs missing and parts of their mind snipped off to fit them into the outline of the free pattern.” PeopleMindMomentsSunViolenceSkyMissingHigherFitDespairRoseGlassesPatternsSpreadSurfaceTinyFlamesGiantsColourLayersRainbowShellsThreateningLimbsHighwaysDroppingOutlinesPrecariousSidewaysCrabsTassels Author:Janet Frame
“Well, I do write on political and social issues and the idea that one shouldn't - or the idea that we should censor ourselves - doesn't really work for me because it would be doing the government's job for them. And I'm not interested in doing that. I think what we need very much in Pakistan is to be able to discuss the corruption and the violence that really colours most of our life here.” ThinkingNeedsShouldWritingWellsIdeasGovernmentWould BeAbleJobsPoliticalSocialIssuesOur LivesViolenceCorruptionColourNot InterestedPakistanSocial Issues Author:Fatima Bhutto
“Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.” MeanNationsRaceViolenceIndependenceColourDistinctionCreedsUnitsNon Violence Book:The Essential Writings Source: The Essential Writings