A mixture of light and heat... orange plays a brilliant part in th

A mixture of light and heat… orange plays a brilliant part in the decoration of the universe. It gives life to the harmonies of the dawn, and mingling with the dramatic scene of declining day, it adds its numberless vibrations to the endless novelty of spectacle which the sinking sun presents. – Charles Blanc, Art in Ornament and Dress, “Personal Adornment: Colours and Their

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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. – Claude Monet

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[T]he colored pencil. The day we received our first full box of assorted colors we felt grown-up, the passage from baby status to childhood was complete. The broken wax crayon stubbles were immediately thrown out to make way for the more elegant and “mature” pencils. – Bernard Aimé Poulin (b.1945), The Complete Colored Pencil Book, 2011

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