“The predominant colour of the kitchen -- its walls, cupboards, floor, shelves -- with all the ancillary rooms -- pantries, larders, cold stores, and sculleries, is green -- Hooker's dark green, leaf-green, emerald, faded turquoise, and eau-de-nile -- like the colours of a dark wet jungle.”
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
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Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“On Pissarro's advice I'm abandoning the emerald green..”
Seurat's note in 1885; as quoted in the exhibition-text 'Georges Seurat, 1859 – 1891' in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1992, ed. Robert Herbert, published: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York
Camille Pissarro wrote his son Lucien c. 1885 and asked him to warn Seurat and Paul Signac, because mixing the cadmium yellow with other pigments would change into dark color, later
Quotes, 1881 - 1890
“Green was the silence, wet was the light,
the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”
Source: 100 Love Sonnets
“One moment flying in green sunlight, then the sky suddenly grey and dark.”
Source: Code Name Verity
“The world is beautiful outside: white, green, and red; but inside it is black and dark as death.”
Diu welt ist ûzen schoene wîz grüen unde rôt
und innân swarzer varwe vinster sam der tôt.
"Owe war sint verswunden alliu mîniu jâr", line 37; translation from George Fenwick Jones Walther von der Vogelweide (New York: Twayne, 1968) p. 136.
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