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is the queen of colors in that she makes everyone else look good.

Gray is the queen of colors, because she makes everyone else look good. (Helen van Wyk)

is one of the sky's colors that makes other rich colors (i.e. Sky-blue, the color of poppies and geraniums) actually look more luminous, because they are seen against a sombre background and seem to be burning with a lustre of their own.

color is such that rich colors (i.e. sky-blue, the color of poppies and geraniums) actually look more luminous on a grey day, because they are seen against a sombre background and seem to be burning with a lustre of their own. [T]he enemies of grey... are fond of bringing forward the argument that colours suffer in grey weather, and that strong sunlight is necessary to all the hues of heaven and earth.... It is true that sun is needed to burnish and bring into bloom the tertiary and dubious colours... the colour of peat, pea-soup, Impressionist sketches, brown velvet coats, olives, grey and blue slates, the complexions of vegetarians, the tints of volcanic rock, chocolate, cocoa, mud, soot, slime, old boots... the delicate shades of these do need the sunlight to bring out the faint beauty that often clings to them. But... if you choke your garden with poppies and geraniums, if you paint your house sky-blue and scarlet, if you wear, let us say, a golden top-hat and a crimson frock-coat, you will not only be visible on the greyest day, but you will notice that your costume and environment produce a certain singular effect.... rich colours actually look more luminous on a grey day, because they are seen against a sombre background and seem to be burning with a lustre of their own. - G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions, 'The Glory of Grey'

is the soul of all color and differentiates the masters.

The fundamental grey, which differentiates the masters, expresses them, is the soul of all color. (Odilon Redon)

is uniquely capable of making 'nothing' visible. It is neither visible nor invisible. It makes no statement whatever and evokes neither feelings nor associations: Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate.

Grey. It makes no statement whatever... it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate. . . It has the capacity that no other color has, to make 'nothing' visible. (Gerhard Richter)

 makes no statement whatever... it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible.

Grey. It makes no statement whatever... it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate, to make visible, in a positively illusionistic way, like a photograph. It has the capacity that no other colour has, to make 'nothing' visible.

1s 2nconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate, to make visible, in a positively illusionistic way, like a photograph.

 has the capacity that no other color has, to make 'nothing' visible..

is an important color - the ideal color for indifference, fence-sitting, keeping quiet, despair, in other words for states of being and situations that affect one, and for which one would like to find a visual expression.

The grey is certainly inspired by the photo-paintings, and, of course, it's related to the fact that I think grey is an important colour - the ideal colour for indifference, fence-sitting, keeping quiet, despair. In other words, for states of being and situations that affect one, and for which one would like to find a visual expression.

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