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• Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sunset, Light, Golden

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.146

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• Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.

  Edvard Munch

  Numbers, House, Green

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• O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine!

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Sweet, Passion, Wine

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• The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white is stays for ever, Their red it never dies; But Phyllida, my Phillida! Her colour comes and goes; It trembles to a lily,-- It wavers to a rose.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Beauty, Eye, White

  'The Ladies of St James's' (1883)

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• Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed hawk circles over a pond and a stand of pines. Get a life in which you pay attention to the baby as she scowls with concentration when she tried to pick up a Cheerio with her thumb and first finger.

  Anna Quindlen

  Baby, Circles, Smell

  "A Short Guide to a Happy Life". Book by Anna Quindlen, 2000.

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• Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Black And White, Color, Green

  Vincent van Gogh, Colta Feller Ives (2005). “Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings”, p.173, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Passion, Humanity, Green

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• It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.

  Paul Gauguin

  Simple, Blue, Simplicity

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.

  Dogen

  Jewels, Cake, Rocks

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• The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations.

  Robert Motherwell

  Wine, Glasses, Blood

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• One must go through life, be it red or blue, stark naked and accompanied by the music of a subtle fisherman, prepared at all times for a celebration.

  Francis Picabia

  Blue, Naked, Celebration

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• The distinct blue, red, and yellow colors... though they have not the kind of harmony which is produced by a variety of broken and transparent colors, have the effect of grandeur.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Blue, Color, Yellow

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• Vermilion alone could render the brilliant red of the tiles on the opposite slope. The orange of the soil, the harsh crude colors of the walls and greenery, the ultramarine and cobalt of the sky achieved an extreme harmony that was sensually and musically ordered.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Wall, Orange, Color

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• I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Color, Sound, Add

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• I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw a lot of it [blood] there.

  Sam Donaldson

  War, Blood, Vietnam

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• The red library is Sui's tribute to fashion maven Diana Vreeland, who served as editor for Harper's Bazaar (1939-1962) and Vogue (1963-1961). My most precious collection is my bound Vogue magazines, .. and they're kind of like my Bible. I look at them all the time when I'm trying to inspire myself for a collection.

  Anna Sui

  Bible, Fashion, Vogue Magazine

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• I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it.

  Colleen Atwood

  Thinking, People, Mind

  "Geisha style is a hit with Westerners". www.today.com. December 8, 2005.

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• If you don't feel comfortable with the Red Cross, anything that you feel comfortable sending money to -- that you know is going to get to the hurricane victims -- send money. Because that's what you can do to help. And a lot of prayers. Lots of prayers.

  Tim McGraw

  Prayer, Hurricanes, Comfort

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• Forget the state concerns -- we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape.

  Michael Tanner

  Thinking, Government, Church

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• It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it's a horrible task for umpires to make a judgment.

  Adam Gilchrist

  Light, Umpires, Judgement

  "Gilchrist almighty". www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2005.

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• Images of burning Red Cross and UN buildings struck by US bombs contrasted with images of thousands of desperately poor Afghan women carrying sickly and starving children out of Afghanistan as they flee the might of the US military is tearing at international public confidence in our war against terrorism.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Children, Military, War

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• I didn't know anything until December 2004 when I went to purchase a vehicle and was told there was a foreclosure on my credit and I wouldn't be able to get the car. I've still got a red flag on my credit.

  Claude Brown

  Red Flags, Car, Credit

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• I can't stand it when Lewis Hamilton or anyone else, is made out to be a godlike character. If Lewis was driving for Red Bull I'm sure he would race extremely well, but he'd be battling for points.

  David Coulthard

  Character, Race, Bulls

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• How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining? A multitude of animal people, intimately related to us, but of whose lives we know almost nothing, are as busy about their own affairs as we are about ours.

  John Muir

  Adventure, Eye, Heart

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.59, Great West Books

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• In nothing does man, with his grand notions of heaven and charity, show forth his innate, low-bred, wild animalism more clearly than in his treatment of his brother beasts. From the shepherd with his lambs to the red-handed hunter, it is the same; no recognition of rights - only murder in one form or another.

  John Muir

  Brother, Men, Compassion

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.43, Great West Books

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