Blue And Yellow Quotes

• There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Color, Yellow, Orange

  1888 Letter to Emile Bernard, Jun.

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• Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.

  Franz Marc

  Spiritual, Blue, Two

  Susanna Partsch, Franz Marc (2001). “Marc”, p.26, Taschen

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• Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put blue and yellow together to make green, but the essence of painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.

  Romare Bearden

  Art, Essence, Yellow

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• Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Lying, Blue, Yellow

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.665, Modern Library

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• I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed: this is the end of painting.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Blue, Yellow, Three

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• Imagine a mosaic picture of a house in the country: lots of red and blue and yellow and black and brown and white and a dozen different shades of green tiles which make a beautiful picture if you stand back far enough. All the little red squares are true - true things, true places, true feelings. But the red squares aren't the picture. All the rest of it is lies and stories, often within the same sentence.

  Neil Gaiman

  Beautiful, Country, Lying

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• It's untrue to say the colors I use are not those of reality. They are real: The red I use is red; the green, green; blue, blue; and yellow, yellow. It's a matter of arranging them differently from the way I find them, but they are always real colors. So it's not true that when I tint a road or a wall, they become unreal. They stay real, though colored differently for my scene.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Wall, Real, Blue

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• Soon I am seeing the blue-and-yellow flags that line the campus streets, and it makes me feel happy and sad at the same time to be back at La Salle--almost like looking at old pictures of people who have either died or with whom you have lost contact.

  Matthew Quick

  Blue, Yellow, People

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel”, p.243, Macmillan

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• Capture of Nanking Rain and a windstorm rage blue and yellow over Chung the bell mountain as a million peerless troops cross the Great River. The peak is a coiled dragon, the city a crouching tiger more dazzling than before. The sky is spinning and the earth upside down. We are elated yet we must use our courage to chase the hopeless enemy. We must not stoop to fame like the overlord Hsiang Yu. If heaven has feeling it will grow old and watch our seas turn into mulberry fields.

  Mao Zedong

  Courage, Rain, Yellow

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