Primary Colors Quotes

• Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

  Joe Klein

  Confused, Writing, Color

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• Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations.

  Emily Post

  Color, Manners, Certain

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• There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, Art Of War, Hue

  Lionel Giles', Sun Tzu (1910). “Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers”, p.14, SJ Creations Tokyo

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• Just as there are primary colors from which all of the others come forth when they're combined, so there are primary vibratory qualities of energy and light within us.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Color

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• The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.

  C. S. Lewis

  Color, Sky, Mind

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• Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Writing, Color, Show Me

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.31, Bantam

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• Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.

  Edward Norton

  Color, Interesting, Way

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. January 3, 2007.

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• Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Nature, Color, Green World

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• Consciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors. The features of my face melt like a wax doll in the fire. And who can consent to see in the mirror the mere face of man?

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Sleep, Men, Fire

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• You might be a redneck if...you think that John Deere Green, Ford Blue, and Primer Gray are the three of the primary colors.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Thinking, Blue

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• The design is a really flat primary color with all sorts of abstract geometric shapes, just implying something. And then you'd have your characters running from something with guns. It was very expressionistic.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Running, Character, Gun

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Music, as long as it exists, will always take its departure from the major triad and return to it. The musician cannot escape it any more than the painter his primary colors or the architect his three dimensions.

  Paul Hindemith

  Color, Long, Musician

  Paul Hindemith (1970). “The Craft of Musical Composition: Theory. English translation by Arthur Mendel”

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• There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, Art Of War, Giving

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• I'm interested in the sculptural experience, glass, marble, colored bricks, stones, wood. There's no stadium out there that approximates it [the Marlins'] because it will be so white and with primary colors all around. It sort of looks like a spaceship that just landed, something different, something people can call their own.

  Jeffrey Loria

  Glasses, Color, White

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• I like to use really basic or classic colors, things that people have seen over and over and over again. Primary colors, at least in photography, have been around a lot longer than neon colors and really vibrant purples, hot pinks. Red, blue, yellow, orange - because of Kodachrome and the way that things were produced I think that those colors stood out more than any others.

  Alex Prager

  Photography, Thinking, Blue

  "Alex Prager Predicts Disaster". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 29, 2012.

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• I never plan anything in an analytical way before I shoot, but when I look back there seems to be kind of a primary color palette.

  Alex Prager

  Color, Looks, Way

  "Alex Prager Predicts Disaster". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 29, 2012.

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• Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

  Robert Benton

  Twilight, Color, Murder Mysteries

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.There are not more than five primary colors, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of them yield more flavors than can ever be tasted.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Yield

  Sun Tzu (2017). “The Art Of War - The Oldest Military Treatise in the World”, p.55, Youcanprint

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• I thought Alchemists avoided alcohol the same way they do primary colors.

  Richelle Mead

  Color, Alcohol, Alchemist

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.113, Penguin

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• To Americans, Washington is a giant cesspool. It's no wonder almost half of Americans (47%) now agree with the statement 'I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.' It's us (the people) versus them (the politicians), and it doesn't matter what primary color you wear [...] I was involved in the 1994 elections, and I will never forget the arrogance of the Democrats back then, and how they refused to accept the electoral reality facing them. It is no different today.

  Frank Luntz

  Reality, Color, Mad

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• Playing President Clinton (in Primary Colors) was risky and challenging. Some people thought Saturday Night Fever was risky, because no one had danced in movies for years.

  John Travolta

  Night, Color, Years

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Am I surprised that Joe Klein [pseudonymous author of Primary Colors which he denied writing] lied? No, because in my opinion reporters lie all the time.

  James Carville

  Lying, Writing, Color

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