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"In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory."
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"Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen."

"I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night."

"Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colors that are but skin-deep."

"Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter."

"Michael would take us on location and see how the colors worked in the forests and fields."

"But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors."

"Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused."
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"On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism."

"It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world."

"This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art."

"I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them."

"The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness."
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