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I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where languag

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it’s at its most powerful. – A.S. Byatt

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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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Artists can color the sky red because they know it’s blue. Those of us who aren’t artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we’re stupid. – Jules Feiffer

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If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others’ cities up in the night in pinks and greens. – Yoko Ono

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Biographical sketch, in fugitive crayons, of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford – John Pinkerton, 1799

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