The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860 - it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason.


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People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continui...
ISAAC SINGER
If extreme poverty is allowed to increase, it will give rise to new problems, including new diseases...
PETER SINGER
To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quant...
PETER SINGER
Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.
PAUL SINGER
I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's c...
PETER SINGER
Paradoxically, resource-rich developing countries are often worse off than comparable countries that...
PETER SINGER
There's a difference between early and late abortions. If you have a late abortion, where the fe...
PETER SINGER
The force of the bundle is with us. We are the champions of the all you can eat cyber buffet, giving...
ADAM SINGER
The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of co...
PETER SINGER
Behind the GOP's bravado, there are a lot GOP operatives quaking in their boots.
PHIL SINGER
What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for...
PETER SINGER
Given the revelations that are coming out about Roberts from these documents, it does beg the questi...
PHIL SINGER
Open government is, within limits, an ideal that we all share. U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed ...
PETER SINGER
Many European countries, as well as Australia, Canada, Israel, and New Zealand, have adopted legisla...
PETER SINGER
More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.
PETER SINGER
I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethic...
PETER SINGER
[Since finishing his acclaimed debut documentary] Dark Days, ... about a group of guys who are the b...
MARC SINGER
'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'
PAUL SINGER
If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tr...
PETER SINGER
This is the starting shot for an online land rush across Europe. We welcome this first step towards ...
ADAM SINGER
There is no doubt that there is a huge difference between human and nonhuman animals. But what we ar...
PETER SINGER
This kind of visit is oversold; you would not have a shift in the public opinion. It's a one day sto...
PETER SINGER
Britain has to decide whether it's trying to influence the individual or influence the environment t...
PETER SINGER
the traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, tec...
PETER SINGER
It's not going to be the individual ... technical (public health) decisions that are going to hold o...
PETER SINGER
It's true that monetary policy was too lax for too long, and the government encouraged lending t...
PAUL SINGER
If we use goods made from raw materials that are obtained from a poor country without the proceeds b...
PETER SINGER
Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema'...
BRYAN SINGER
In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease wou...
PETER SINGER
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pret...
PETER SINGER
When diamonds' role in fuelling violent conflict in Africa gained worldwide attention, the diamo...
PETER SINGER
All I say about severely disabled babies is that when a life is so miserable it is not worth living,...
PETER SINGER
If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if...
PETER SINGER
Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as d...
PAUL SINGER
The Orderly Liquidation Authority prescribed by Dodd-Frank should be repealed and replaced by an ame...
PAUL SINGER
In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a maj...
PETER SINGER
Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are...
PETER SINGER
I believe that in this new world that we live in, we often have a responsibility, you know, to actua...
PETER SINGER
Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to...
PETER SINGER