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Quotes of the Day for 11 December 2004 - Color

It took a little work to dig a theme out of today's calendar, as nothing by itself jumped out immediately. I did note that the Scottish physicist David Brewster was born on this day in 1781. Along with building telescopes and other instruments for physics, he found time to invent the kaleidoscope in 1816. In 1863, Annie Jump Cannon was born at Dover, Delaware, her career as an astronomical spectroscopist was spent deciphering the colors of the stars. In their honor, today's theme is Color.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight.... The truly wise person is colorblind.
     - Albert Schweitzer, 1875 - 1965

Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.
     - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Theory of Colors

When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.
     - Madeleine L'Engle

The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet, you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.
     - Vincent van Gogh, 1853 - 1890

Few colors last; with their eternal thirst, time and light suck on them, and they bleach the black doctor’s hat until it’s grey like a dunce’s cap.
     - Franz Grillparzer, 1791 - 1872

I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.
     - Auguste Renoir, 1841 - 1919

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