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"The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness."
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"The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it."
"They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black."
"Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colors that are but skin-deep."
"I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings."
"Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure. I had great satisfaction in doing that."
"And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me."
"My Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors."
"The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something."
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"In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?"
"Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter."
"A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself."
"There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive."
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