Color Quotes - Page 40

• Americanism is not a matter of skin or color.

  Daniel Inouye

  Skins, Matter, Americanism

  "Sen. Daniel Inouye On Pearl Harbor, After 70 Years". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 7, 2011.

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• Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics.

  Michelle Malkin

  Identity Politics, Mind, Special

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• There's a lot of people in the world who don't believe that people whose skin color may not be the same as ours can be free and self-govern. I reject that. I reject that strongly. I believe that people who practice the Muslim faith can self-govern. I believe that people whose skins aren't necessarily - are a different color than white can self-govern.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Skin Color, Self

  George W. Bush's Remarks with Prime Minister Martin of Canada in a Press Availability, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. April 30, 2004.

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• There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a vicious mind: in a virtuous mind it is a virtue, and will be found to take its color from the character in which it is mixed. Ambition is a desire of superiority; and a man may become superior, either by making others less or himself greater.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Passion, Ambition, Character

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• I once heard a woman who had lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly missing from her world: the dog had introduced to her field of vision some previously unavailable hue and without a dog, that color was gone. That seemed to capture the experience of loving a dog with eminent simplicity. I'd amend it only slightly and say that if we are open to what they have to give, dogs can introduce us to several colors with names like wildness, nurturance, trust and joy.

  Caroline Knapp

  Dog, Names, Giving

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• If we would see the color of our future, we must look for it in our present; if we would gaze on the star of our destiny, we must look for it in our hearts.

  Frederic Farrar

  Inspirational, Stars, Heart

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• Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my efforts to create an equivalent with paint color for the world, life as I see it.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Thinking, Effort, World

  Jennifer Saville, Georgia O'Keeffe, Honolulu Academy of Arts (1990). “Georgia O'Keeffe: paintings of Hawai'i”

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• I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almighty—and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Brother, Taken, Twenties

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.47, Infobase Publishing

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• Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.

  John Marshall Harlan

  Powerful, Law, Class

  Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, (559), 1896.

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• Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

  Booker T. Washington

  Hate, Men, Race

  Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1981). “The Booker T. Washington Papers”, p.35, University of Illinois Press

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• Candy apple red is my favorite color. It's a powerful color to wear. It's always been that way - I've always been really attracted to that color.

  Carly Rae Jepsen

  Powerful, Apples, Red

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  They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

  Lana Del Rey

  Book, Judging, Judge Me

  Song: Brooklyn Baby, Album: Ultraviolence, 2014

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• I have come to think that one of the most satisfying experiences I know — and also one of the most growth-promoting experiences for the other person — is just fully to appreciate this individual in the same way that I appreciate a sunset.

  Carl Rogers

  Sunset, Clouds, Hands

  "Freedom to learn".

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• Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West.
  More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Topography, Maps, West

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.5, Macmillan

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• I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.

  Mike Huckabee

  Party, Achievement, Want

  Republican National Convention Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• He who wishes to become a master of color must see, feel, and experience each individual color in its endless combinations with all other colors.

  Johannes Itten

  Wish, Individual, Masters

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• Colors are forces, radiant energies that affect us positively or negatively, whether we are aware of it or not.

  Johannes Itten

  Energy, Force, Positively

  Johannes Itten, Faber Birren (1970). “The Elements of Color”, p.12, John Wiley & Sons

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• If you, unknowing, are able to create masterpieces in color, then unknowledge is your way. But if you are unable to create masterpieces in color out of your unknowledge, then you ought to look for knowledge.

  Johannes Itten

  Looks, Able, Way

  Johannes Itten, Faber Birren (1970). “The Elements of Color”, p.7, John Wiley & Sons

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• Designing is not a profession but an attitude. Design has many connotations. It is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function. It is the intergration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space. Thinking in relationships.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Attitude, Thinking, Organization

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• I never allowed myself the luxury of those brilliant, beautiful colors until I went to India and saw people walking around in them or dragging them in the mud. I realised they were not so artificial.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Beautiful, Luxury, People

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• A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so yellow has shades, which can be expressed by various instruments.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Yellow, Giving, Shade

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• The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Dark, Lakes, Yellow

  Wassily Kandinsky (1955). “Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912”

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• Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Soul, Influence

  Wassily Kandinsky (1955). “Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912”

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• The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms.

  Piet Mondrian

  Dimensions, Form, Given

  Piet Mondrian, Harry Holtzman, Martin S. James (1986). “The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian”, Twayne Pub

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• The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.

  Mark Rothko

  Religious, People, Missing

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