"Green grass, green grandstands, green concession stalls,..." - Quote by John Updike
Green grass, green grandstands, green concession stalls, green paper cups, green folding chairs and visors for sale, green and white ropes, green-topped Georgia pines. If justice were poetic, Hubert Green would win it every year.
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“I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being.”
“A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.”
“Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it.”
More on Aesthetics
“I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.”
“The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.”
“I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.”
More on Color
“For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.”
“There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?”
“He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.”