Famous quotes containing the words foreground and/or color:
“The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
“... ideals, standards, aspirations,—those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,—often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me that he traveled a thousand miles into the desert to get away from the word uplift, and it was the first word he heard after he reached his destination.”
—Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)