Sensational Color

Purest and Most Thoughtful Minds

"The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most."

--John Ruskin [British art critic and author, 1819–1900] The Stones of Venice, vol. 2, ch. 5, sct. 30 (1852)

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True Blue

" Blueness doth express trueness."

--Ben Jonson [British dramatist and poet, 1573-1637] from Amorphus, in Cynthia’s Revels, act 5, sc. 2

 

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Color Possesses Me

"Color possesses me. I don’t have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter."

Paul Klee   [Swiss artist, 1879–1940] The Diaries of Paul Klee 1898-1918, entry for April 16, 1914 (1957, trans. 1965)

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Fragmentary Blue

" Why make so much of fragmentary blue
In here and there a bird, or butterfly,
Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,
When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?"

Robert Frost [American poet, 1874-1963] from “Fragmentary Blue.”

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Photographer: Ian Britton

Get Some Color Out of Life

" Not to sink under being man and wife,
But get some color and music out of life?"

Robert Frost [American poet, 1874-1963] “The Investment.”

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Green is Gold

"Nature’s first green is gold"

--Robert Frost [American poet, 1874-1963] Nothing Gold Can Stay (l. 1) The Poetry of Robert Frost. Edward Connery Lathem, ed. (1979) Henry Holt.

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Photographer: Ian Britton

Why Do Colors Sing?

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

Pablo Picasso [Spanish painter and sculptor, 1881-1973] Arts de France (Paris, 1946), no. 6, trans. in Dore Ashton, Picasso on Art (1972)

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Colors Follow Emotions

"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions."

Pablo Picasso [Spanish painter and sculptor, 1881-1973] Trans. in Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art (1946). Conversation avec Picasso, vol. 10, no. 10, Cahiers d’Art (Paris, 1935)

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Colour is Indispensable

"Colour is a basic human need…like fire and water, a raw material, indispensable to life."        

Fernand Léger, [painter, 1881-1955]

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Everyone's Favorite Frog

"It's not easy being green."

Kermit the Frog

Read an interview with Kermit the Frog on exclaim.ca

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