Pale Yellow Quotes

• There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Color, Yellow, Orange

  1888 Letter to Emile Bernard, Jun.

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• In California in the early Spring,
  There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day,
  The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain -
  Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.

  Robert Hass

  Morning, Pain, Spring

  Robert Hass (1979). “Five American poets: Robert Hass, John Matthias, James McMichael, John Peck, Robert Pinsky”, Persea Books

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• Brioches are a light, pale yellow, faintly sweet kind of muffin with a characteristic blob on top, rather like a mushroom just pushing crookedly through the ground. Once eaten in Paris, they never taste as good anywhere else.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Sweet, Food, Light

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• A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bulgaria, in lieu of gold, at the Moscow Narodny Bank, a Communist finance house for East-West trade.

  S. J. Perelman

  Oil, House, Gold

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• During college, when I was working full time for my father [the decorator Mark Hampton], I rented an apartment and I just couldn't take time off to paint it. So I went there one evening and stayed up all night painting the place what I thought was a lovely pale yellow. When the sun came up, I realized I'd painted the walls the color of insanity. I had to immediately mix in all my trim color to tone it down. Yellow is an electric color and wholly misleading. It becomes more yellow with the sun's yellow light on it. The moral is, even if you think your yellow is the one, go paler.

  Alexa Hampton

  Wall, Father, Night

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• I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . . But though I greatly delight In these and the water lilies, That which sets me nighest to weeping Is the rose and white colour of the smooth flag-stones, And the pale yellow grasses Among them.

  Richard Aldington

  Happiness, Dark, Garden

  Richard Aldington (1928). “Collected poems”

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• To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the richest, intensest blue that I can contrive, and by this simple combination of the bright head against the rich blue background, I get a mysterious effect, like a star in the depths of an azure sky.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Stars, Simple, Hair

  Vincent van Gogh (1929). “Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889”

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• (The raindrops) played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Night, New Day, Lavender

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• Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered—-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments.

  Regina Doman

  Blue, Jeans, Sweaters

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• More than half a century has passed, and yet each spring, when I wander into the primrose wood, I see the pale yellow blooms and smell their sweetest scent - for a moment I am seven years old again and wandering in that fragrant wood.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Spring, Years, Smell

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