#col

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#gardening #self-sufficiency #art

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

#explain #how #just #learn #never

I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#color #expression #art

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. ↗

— Joan Miro

#colors #i #like #music #notes

But why? Why do you care about our class’s history?" "I just do. Besides, I need something to put on my art-school applications besides ’Locks self in room and draws all day.’ Even art schools won’t take a psychopath. ↗

— Natalie Standiford

#college-applications #psycopaths #art

When Lincoln was asked if God was on the Union’s side, Lincoln’s unvarying response was that what was really important was whether they were on God’s side. ↗

— Joe L. Wheeler

#faith #god #history #courage

My favorite color on canvas is nudity.

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— Jarod Kintz

#canvas #color #naughty #nude #nudity

Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible. ↗

— Roma Tearne

#color #perception #art

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. ↗

— Marc Chagall

#friends #lovers #neighbors #opposites #their

It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#color #god #life #lipstick #love