Color

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With the color that paints the morning and evening clouds that face the sun I saw then the whole heaven suffused.

Dante Alighieri

Paradiso

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Topic

Color Sunrise Sunset

Author

Dante Alighieri

Source

Paradiso The Divine Comedy

Medium

Poem

Genre

Narrative poem Epic poem Religious literature

Statement Type

Vision

Language

Latin

Time

1321 1320s 14th century

Era

Middle Ages

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Alighieri, Dante. "Paradiso [Paradise]." La Comedia di Dante Alleghieri [The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri]. Foligno: Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi, 1472.

Current Citation

Alighieri, Dante. "Paradiso." The Divine Comedy, edited by David H. Higgins, translated by C. H. Sisson. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Color is the place where our brain meets the universe.

Paul Cézanne

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Topic

Color Perception

Speaker

Paul Cézanne

Source

Conversations with Cézanne

Medium

Interview

Language

French

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Cézanne, Paul. Cézanne: A Memoir with Conversations, 1897 - 1906. Thames and Hudson, 1991. Originally stated during a conversion with Joachim Gasquet, c. 1906.

There's something about this that's so black, it's like how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.

This is Spinal Tap

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Topic

Black Color

Speaker

Nigel Tufnel

Actor

Christopher Guest

Source

This is Spinal Tap

Medium

Film

Genre

Mockumentary Comedy (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1984 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

This is Spinal Tap. Directed by Rob Reiner, Spinal Tap Prod., 1984.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.

Genesis 37:3

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Topic

Color Clothing

Source

Genesis The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

1405 BC 1400s BC 15th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Genesis 37:3).

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.

A Clockwork Orange

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Topic

Color Media Screens

Speaker

Alex

Actor

Malcolm McDowell

Source

A Clockwork Orange

Medium

Film

Genre

Dystopian (film) Crime (film) Dystopian Crime

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

A Clockwork Orange. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Polaris Productions/Hawk Films, 1971.

Neon looks good in Nevada.

John McPhee

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Topic

Color America

Author

John McPhee

Source

Basin and Range

Language

English

Time

1981 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

McPhee, John. Basin and Range. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981.

Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it, I know that it has hold of me forever.. .Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Paul Klee

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Topic

Color Art

Speaker

Paul Klee

Language

German

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Klee, Paul. Quoted in Klee, written by Susanna Partsch. Taschen, 2015. Originally a diary entry, 16 Apr. 1914.

Learning that color is a fiction of light is one of the primary shocks of growing up: that this hitherto deeply physical thing is just a reflection and that nothing can keep its color under the cover of darkness, are monstrous things to understand, even for my adult mind.

Tacita Dean

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Topic

Light and color Light Color Illusions Perception

Speaker

Tacita Dean

Source

Colour: Documents of Contemporary Art

Language

English

Time

21st century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Dean, Tacita. Colour: Documents of Contemporary Art, edited by David Batchelor. MIT Press, 2008, p. 235.