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«Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.»
Author: Adriaan Kortlandt
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About:
Animals
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Keywords:
chimpanzee,
chimpanzees,
colors,
forest,
gaze,
my supper,
particularly,
pawpaw,
picking,
pickings,
retire,
retires,
sunset,
sunsets,
supper,
suppers
«It comes down to the fact that you supply the blue, and they supply the other colors and mix them with your blue, and maybe there's some blue left in the painting and maybe there isn't. Maybe there wasn't supposed to be any there in the first place. So have some fun and make a good blue and walk away.»
Author: Viggo Mortensen
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Actor,
Artist,
Photographer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
blue,
colors,
in the first place,
mix,
mixes,
mix in,
mix up,
painting,
supply,
supposed,
walk away
«My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility. Inspired by certain pages of Delacroix, an artist like Signac is preoccupied with complementary colors, and the t»
Author: Henri Matisse
(
Artist,
Painter)
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Keywords:
colors,
complementary,
Delacroix,
inspired,
observation,
pages,
preoccupied,
preoccupies,
preoccupy,
rest on,
scientific,
scientific theory,
sensibilities,
sensibility,
T,
The T
«I bet Einstein turned himself all sorts of colors before he invented the light bulb.»
«Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
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Artist,
Painter)
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Keywords:
author,
Book One,
brushed,
brushes,
brushing,
brush up,
colored person,
coloring book,
colors,
derives,
deriving,
describing,
feels,
landscape,
paint,
painting,
preferred,
reading,
The Author,
The Pleasure
«Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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Keywords:
advocacy,
agility,
arranges,
clouding,
colors,
deliberation,
deliberations,
disturbing,
inject,
injected,
injecting,
injects,
intercourse,
meddles,
settle,
the matter
«Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.»
«I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colors»
«I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
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Painter)
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Keywords:
arranging,
colors,
departing,
enlarging,
model,
ruthlessly,
simplified,
simplifies,
simplifying,
the matter,
to enlarge,
true color
«I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(
Author,
Orator,
Prime Minister)
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Keywords:
brilliant,
browned,
browning,
browns,
colors,
genuinely,
impartial,
pretend,
rejoice,
sorry for,
The Brown