User:Lbattich/Menagerie

A variety of notes, shards of texts, annotations, quotes and other traces, outcome of derives through a different texts and works.

On colour

• "A man who wants the truth is never answered save in strong, highly colored images, which nonetheless turn ambiguous, indecisive, once he tries to transform them into signs: as in any manticism, the consulting lover must make his own truth. - Barthes, A Lovers Discourse: Fragments, 1977 (tr. 1978) p215.

• "Colour is enslaved by line that becomes writing." - Yves Klein

• "Colour refuses to conform to schematic and verbal systems." - Charles A.Riley, p12

• Stephen Melville: "Colour has not yet been named"

• Colour for Kristeva, is linked to 'subject/object indeterminacy', to a state before the self is formed in language, before the world is fully differentiated from the subject. (David Batchelor, 82)

• It is through colour that "the subject escapes its alienation within a code .. that it, as a conscious subject, accepts." Kristeva, Giotto's Joy, 221.

• Colour is a "pleasure that exceeds discoursivness. Like passion, the pleasure of coloris slips away from linguistic determination." - Jacqueline Lichtenstein, The Eloquence of colour: Rhetoric and Painting in the French Classical Age, p.194.

• "We do not want to establish a theory of colour (neither a physiological one nor a psychological one), but rather the logic of colour concepts." - Wittgenstein, Remarks on Colour (1950), p7.

• "Even when it is adequately named, colour exceeds the word. It is a remainder or a supplement without a name ..." - Thierry de Duve, "Colour and Its Name", in Pictorial Nominalism: On Marcel Duchamp's Passage from Painting to Readymade, (1984), p122.

• "In short, the name of a colour is never anything but the result of a segmenting made by other colours, and so on. In this process in which words segment words, the name of a colour risks losing its designated referent, even though it vouches for that to which it corresponds." - de Duve, p135

• "For me, colour is pure thought, therefore totally incapable of being expressed in words. It is just as abstract as a mathematical formula or a philosophical concept. If a work of art (which can be a painting, a sculpure or an object which has yet to be defined) has a single reason for being, it is to show in the clearest, the most intelligible and the most sensual way its characteristics which cannot be describbed in words, and if possible, allow them to be shared." - Daniel Buren, 'Interview with Jerome Sans', in Daniel Buren: Internention II. Works in Situ, (2006)

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Colour is single ... (Walter Benjamin)

Colour is the shattering of unity (Julia Kristeva)

Colour exists in itself (Henri Matisse)

Colour cannot stand alone (Wassily Kandinsky)

Colour ... is new each time (Roland Barthes)

Colour is the experience of a ratio (William H. Gass)

Colour is a poor imitator (Bernard Berenson)

Colour deceives continuously (Josef Albers)

Colour is an illusion, but not an unfounded illusion (C.L. Hardin)

Colour is like a closing eyelid, a tiny fainting spell (Roland Barthes)

Colour must be seen (Walter Benjamin)

Colour ... is the peculiar characteristic of the lower forms of nature (Charles Blanc)

Colour is suited to simple races, peasants and savages (Le Corbusier)

Colour is accidental and has nothing in common with the innermost essence of the thing (Naum Gabo and Anton Pevsner)

Colour seems to have a Queer bent! (Derek Jarman)

Colour can appear an unthinkable scandal (Stephen Melville)

Colour has always been seen as belonging to the ontologically deficient categories of the ephemeral and the random (Jacqueline Lichtenstein)

Colour is the concrete expression of a maximum difference within identity (Adrian Stokes)

Colour ... emphasizes the outward and simultaneous otherness of space (Adrian Stokes)

Colour to continue had to occur in space (Donald Judd)

Colour becomes significant only when it is used as an attribute of form (Clive Bell)

Colour ... even more than drawing, is a means of liberation (Henri Matisse)

Colour is enslaved by line that becomes writing (Yves Klein)

Colour has not yet been named (Jacques Derrida)

Colour is a pleasure that exceeds discursiveness (Jacqueline Lichtenstein)

Colour precedes words and antedates civilization ... (Leonard Shalin) Colour is knowledge (Donald Judd)

Colour ... is a kind of bliss (Roland Barthes)

Colour is the first revelation of the world (Hélio Oiticica)

Colour must be thought, imagined, dreamed ... (Gustave Moreau)

Colour is not an easy matter (Umberto Eco)