The destruction of sight, wherever the injuries be sustained, followsthe same law: all colors are aected in the _st place,and lose theirsaturation. Then the spectrum is simpli_d, being reduced to four andsoon to two colors; _ally a grey monochrome stage is reached,although the pathological color is never identi_ble with any normalone. Thus in central as in peripheral lesions __he loss of nervous substance results not only in a de_iency of certain qualities, but in thechange to a less dierentiated and more primitive structure_.
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The destruction of sight, wherever the injuries be sustained, follows the same law: all colours are aected in the _st place, and lose their saturation. Then the spectrum is simpli_d, being reduced to four andsoon to two colours; _ally a grey monochrome stage is reached, although the pathological colour is never identi_ble with any normal one. Thus in central as in peripheral lesions __he loss of nervous substance results not only in a de_iency of certain qualities, but in the change to a less dierentiated and more primitive structure_.
But rock, of course, is many colors. The distinction is subtle, but it is not just one plain grey, that I can promise...I spent five hours one afternoon just staring at a rock trying to see into its color scheme.
It's tempting to think of red for sun," she said, "but it has to be just a dash, not much. More of a dark orange and a hint of brown. And then white on yellow on white. Not bright white,' she said. 'The kind of white that makes you squint, but in a softer way...''Go look at fire for a while. Go spend some time with fire.'Looking at fire was interesting, I have to admit. I sat with a candle for a couple hours. It has these stages of color: the white, the yellow, the red, the tiny spot of blue I'd heard mentioned but never noticed.
Technology is grey. More technology, less colors. We're building a world with colors only in poems.
I don't want these. They're mud and they've got no color. Or at least the color is different from what I'm used to. Take any American city, in autumn, or in winter, when the light makes the colors dance and flow, and look at it from a distant hill or from a boat in the bay or on the river, and you will see in any section of the view far better paintings than in this lentil soup that you people have to pedigree in order to love. I may be a thief, but I know color when I see it in the flash of heaven or in the Devil's opposing tricks, and I know mud. Mr. Knoedler, you needn't worry about your paintings anymore. I'm not going to steal them. I don't like them.Sincerely yours, P. Soames
This is God's universe and he is the master gardener of all. If we were to eliminate all colors in his garden, then what would be a rainbow with only one color? Or a garden with only one kind of flower? Why would the Creator create a vast assortment of plants, ethnicities, and animals, if only one beast or seed is to dominate all of existence?
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart _ the best brain.
Nature awakens each day in brilliant autumn colors, making me wish the pale winter would bid adieu.
She knew then that white was more than a color: It was a cold, pale shade of understanding that seems to take all of your hope away.
All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it._ _ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents.
If ever you want a rainbow in your home, go to Sandwich Glass Museum, and let them put one in your heart too.
...and so many colorsI will have seen...the menacing greysand pine greensthe soft pink and purplesof springand summer blueand so many otherswithout you.
There wouldn't be life without colour.
Gratitude is the real treasure God wants us to find, because it isn't the pot of gold but the rainbow that colors our world.
Gratitude comes in a spectrum of colors, but Ingratitude is always black.
When you paint your lips, eye lids, nails or whatever, to look attractive, don't forget your up stairs(intellect) if you leave it behind, i will consider all other colors invalid.