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)
“The intellect,—that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)