"Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color……" — Alexander Theroux
"Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a language develops and acquires names for color, the colors always enter in the same order. The most primitive are black and white. Then red. Then either green or yellow."
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21 Quotes by Alexander Theroux
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Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction,…
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Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.
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Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
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There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
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Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.
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Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?
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Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences…
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Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.
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