Changing Colors Quotes

• Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Color, Sea, Waves Breaking

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1844). “The Spanish Student: A Play in Three Acts”, p.50

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• Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.

  Adriaan Kortlandt

  Beautiful, Sunset, Animal

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• Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.

  Milton Avery

  Nature, Drama, Wind Blowing

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• Stroke followed stroke with the velocity of light. The movement of my hand was interrupted only by the act of changing colors.

  Carole Katchen

  Light, Hands, Color

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• From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people.

  Louis Adamic

  Religious, Nice, Ocean

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• Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.

  Carl Maria von Weber

  Color, Nuance, Emotion

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