"Painters used red like spice"

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Source : Derek Jarman (2017). “Chroma: A Book of Colour - June '93”, p.33, Random House

Derek Jarman

#Color Quotes #Spices Quotes #Red Quotes

“Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.”
“You can assert a fifth amendment privilege and not testify. But if you go in and swear to tell the truth, then you better do it. Otherwise, if a prosecutor finds that you have testified in a way that is factually incorrect and you had reason to know that it was factually incorrect, then you're guilty of perjury.”
“The only thing Earl (Weaver) knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.”
“I needed him like I'd never needed anyone.”
“In North Korea, we never learned to think critically. There is no concept of individualism. The government treated us as less valuable than animals. You can't even stay overnight at someone's house without permission from the police. My mother warned me not to say - or even think - anything bad about our "dear leader," Kim Jong Il, because "even the birds and mice can hear you whisper."”
“Regarding the idea of race, .. no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as obvious as the noonday sun, but if that is so, why the endless wrangling about the idea and the facts of race. What is a race? How can it be recognized? Who constitute the several races?.”
“You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead.”
“Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.”

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