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Color Quotes - Page 43

I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.

"Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Book edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, Edition Lafayette, New York, p. 85 'Quotes', 1990.

I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.

"Albers Paints a Picture". Elaine de Kooning, ARTnews Magazine, Issue 49 (p. 57), November 1950; later quoted in William C. Seitz "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America" (p. 67), 1983.

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

1988 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 19 July 1988, Omni Coliseum, Atlanta GA

You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.

FaceBook post by Jennifer Niven from Jun 29, 2016

For the artist, the color, the bouquet, the tinkling of the spoon on the saucer, are things in the highest degree. He stops at the quality of the sound or the form. He returns to it constantly and is enchanted with it.

Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.312, Open Road Media

A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres.

Henri Matisse (1977). “Henri Matisse Paper Cut-outs: National Gallery of Art Color Slide Program”

Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.

Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.156, Univ of California Press

There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin.

Colin L. Powell, Harry S. Truman, National Legal Center for the Public Interest (1998). “President Truman and the desegregation of the armed forces: A 50th anniversary view of Executive Order 9981”