Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Tombstone Blues
Variant: The sun's not yellow, its chicken!
Source: da Tombstone Blues, 1965
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”
1950s
Source: Sergei Eisenstein (1957), Film form [and]: The film sense, p. 127.
“The yellow moon turned orange and was soon red as the setting sun.”
Source: Catch-22 (1961), pp. 462
“The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.”
Source: Seraph on the Suwanee
Wang Zhi-huan, "On the Heron Tower"
Song of the Immortals: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry (1994)
“For a chicken the most beautiful is chicken.”
Commentary on the 1987 project entitled "Chicken & Art", cited in: Leszek Brogowski. "Jacek Tylicki and the new ethos of Art," in Projekt Visual Art Magazine, nr. 202-203, 1995
“When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
