Who said “The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the…”?

“There is no blue without yellow and without orange.”

“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.”

“Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity.”

“Blueness doth express trueness.”

“Colors are the smiles of nature.”

“Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.”

“The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.”

“It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, where Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.”

“Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.”

“If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.”

“A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it back—it is already so far.”