The paper cutouts allow me to draw with color. For me, it is a simplification. Instead of drawing an outline and then filling in with color-with one modifying the other-I draw directly in color...It is not a starting point, it is a completion.
Henri Matisse
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10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the mea... PAUL KLEE By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem. - Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I just love the color purple on me, because it goes really well with my eye color. SARAH HYLAND Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask... JAY NORTHCOTE Color is bigger than ever, ... We have been talking about color for a few years, and this season it ... MARC JACOBS Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the... PAUL KLEE What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me. CRAIG GROESCHEL Some people associate red with love, but to me, red is for an earlier stage of a relationship. Black... DIERKS BENTLEY Designing bridal is perfect for me, because black is my least favorite color, if you could call it a... LELA ROSE Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the considerati... JOHANN JOACHIM WINCKELMANN If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... Life is a magical game so play it with love. DEBASISH MRIDHA Pink is not a color - it's a culture to me. DEANGELO WILLIAMS When a child is conceived, an egg is fertilized, and at that point the unborn child has all the DNA ... ANNE NEWMAN Eyeliner is a go-to for me, and gold has always been a color that I really like. It's reminiscen... JILLIAN HERVEY I like black, because for me it is a very happy color. AZZEDINE ALAIA Color is what gives me hope. Color is what gives me life. Color is what gives me love. ANTHONY T. HINCKS I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is tota... KAKI KING When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginnin... ELLSWORTH KELLY I'm not an Emontional, but how??? I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has... DEYTH BANGER For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same r... YVES KLEIN It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, ... MAXFIELD PARRISH Now that I have an Olympic medal in my room, it makes me hungry for another and a different color on... GRACIE GOLD If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to ... LARRY MCMURTRY Better to feel nothing, to be numb, than to lose control. It's the only way I know to deal with it. JULIE KAGAWA Getting on with her life is important. But right now it may be more important to put the feelings ou... JENNIFER BROWN Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and the... FERNANDO BOTERO Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of ... PAUL KLEE The weather was more of a mosaic instead of one solid color this year. To me it was a remarkable yea... ANDREW HUMPHREY His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the... WASSILY KANDINSKY In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life a... MARC CHAGALL Surfing is not my strong point. And... I don't really have a tan. I go to the tanning place, the one... LORI LOUGHLIN In teaching color, you teach people how to look something and see the tone in it and break it down t... JOHN VAN HAMERSVELD For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA I hid myself behind Baba. It was like being in the shadow. Shadows are empty places in things. The c... BILAL TANWEER The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY If you force me to pick one color, it'd be Black... It covers up the things inside of me that I don'... GOSHO AOYAMA She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get... RUDOLPH DELSON When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... DEYTH BANGER In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of li... MARC CHAGALL I love you crookedly because my heart's been unhinged from birth. The doctors gave me strict instru... MATHIAS MALZIEU Color is a power which directly influences the soul. WASSILY KANDINSKY You were like a blank piece of paper, sitting there; lonely, empty, lifeless, and soulless. Until li... ROSA M. BETANCES Pink is the color of romance and a friend tells me that the girl with the pink dress at the party is... ALFRED CARL HOTTES I’m not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it. ERICA COOK If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it. ELIZABETH BERG Surfing is not my strong point. And... I don't really have a tan. I go to the tanning place, the... LORI LOUGHLIN I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is... URSULA BURNS Hair color is the easiest way to change your appearance, but a bad dye job might draw more attention... LISA LUTZ Godliness with contentment is rare. CRAIG GROESCHEL I like black for clothes, small items, and jewelry. It's a color that can't be violated by any other... YANA TOBOSO Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerne... LYNDON B. JOHNSON The whole body reacts to color. If you were to walk into an all-neon-pink room, it would be difficul... JIM DRAIN Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON I am supposed to be helping her prepare for the GRE. Instead, we spend most of the time talking abou... WEIKE WANG Now since I have seen the ocean with my own eyes, I feel completely how important it is for me to st... VINCENT VAN GOGH I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ... BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power. SHESH NATH VERNWAL life is a rainbow with different colors, life is multicolored, it switches to any color as it please... FAGBAYIMU SAMSON ADEOLA In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact m... JOSEF ALBERS The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not ... ALICE MEYNELL Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has alw... FERNANDO BOTERO Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for ... NEWT GINGRICH It is not something I earned or acquired or bought. It is a gift. It is something that was given to ... BOB GIBSON There is even one that is the color of a Hershey's Kiss, but it is not available in this country yet... JULIE MARUSKIN The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are ... CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerne... LYNDON B. JOHNSON Giving them space to draw and color gives them room to be creative. JEANNIE FRAISE I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it... MICHAEL GRAVES A person's life is dyed with the color of his imagination. MARCUS ANTONIUS A person's life is dyed with the color of his imagination. MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONIUS Every color has a history. Red is the color of the Communist flag, the color that makes a surgeon mo... ETTORE SOTTSASS Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its ... W. S. MERWIN For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a... ALDEN EHRENREICH It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive... DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT Buddha lets me see the world in color so that I can appreciate its color. Just as God too lets ... ANTHONY T. HINCKS I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa... ERIK GRIFFIN It's very colorful with many different colors juxtaposed. That is part of the charm of the design. E... JOE RUGGIERO Longhorns are unique - each and every one of them is a different color with a different design. JANINE TURNER Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or s... HAKEEM OLAJUWON Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Before 1990, orange had a rather abrasive image. But it's a wonderful color to connect with the envi... MARGARET WALCH
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