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

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)