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He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always

He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals. – Oscar Wilde

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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. – Oscar Wilde

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Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on. – Oscar Wilde

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All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. – Marc Chagall

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…A long struggle lies in store for me in this field of color. – Paul Klee

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Of all Gods gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. – John Ruskin

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The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood. – Alice Meynell

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