I must say I like bright colours

By Ingrid Fetell Lee

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I must say I like bright colours. I cannot pretend to feel impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. When I get to heaven, I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the subject. But then I shall require a still gayer palette than I get here below. I expect orange and vermillion will be the darkest, dullest colours upon it, and beyond them will be a whole range of wonderful new colours which will delight the celestial eye.

Winston Churchill

Art by Paul Jenkins, via But does it float. Quote via Kay Redfield Jamison’s Exuberance.

September 28th, 2009

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