“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
“The sun's not yellow, it's chicken.”
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Tombstone Blues
Variant: The sun's not yellow, its chicken!
Source: da Tombstone Blues, 1965
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