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Quotations: Crayons, Coloring,
Colored Pencils, Chalk, and Coloring Books
Give crayons. Adults are disturbingly impoverished of these magical dream sticks.
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a coloured pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. ~G.K. Chesterton, "On Lying in Bed," Tremendous Trifles, 1909
If you're ever in a jam, a crayon scrunched up under your nose makes a good pretend mustache.
After eating a very big piece of cake, Desdemona decides she needs some quiet time. She will make magic with color. ~Patty Gannon, Desdemona and the Eggs, 2011 [By the by, in case you were wondering, it's extra-rich double dark chocolate cake!
Color affects us. Everyone should have a paintbox and a large box of crayons. ~Dr. SunWolf, @WordWhispers, tweet, 2015, professorsunwolf.com
Actually... all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you an education... What you receive is like the outlines in a child's coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself. ~Louis L'Amour, The Lonesome Gods, 1983
Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A Beauty Bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air — explode softly — and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth — boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either — not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. ~Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, 1986, robertleefulghum.com
And in our painting books we spread
Pools of yellow, blue, and red —
Carefully,
Though it doesn't matter
Terribly much unless we spatter.
~Harry Behn (1898–1973), "Coloring," The Little Hill, 1949
Biographical Sketch, In Fugitive Crayons, of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford ~John Pinkerton, 1799
Crayons today are more widely used in elementary art programs than any other medium. Indeed, they have become such an accepted part of the classroom scene in the last fifty years that most students are unaware of the part crayons have played in the history of art beginning centuries ago. The was crayon has a distinguished history of use by great artists from Phidias to Picasso, and, today, crayons just like the ones children color with in schools are being used by artists in the fine art and commercial fields in ever increasing numbers. The use of wax as an artist's material goes back to the golden age of Greek art... Sometime during the fifteenth century, artists began to mold pigments and binders into colored sticks or "crayons." ~Reynolds Girdler, Jr., "Crayons in the History of the Arts," in Art Education, 1967
Now a short stub in a box filled with pointy crayons—
Scarlet was the most beloved.
If you're traveling with two young kids in the back seat, it isn't really a vacation. It's World
My childhood smells like a box of Crayola® crayons. ~Terri Guillemets
People overestimate the pleasure they'll get from having more stuff. This does not apply to new rose bushes, crayons, or yarn stashes. ~Dr. SunWolf, @WordWhispers, tweet, professorsunwolf.com
I can tell it's probably not going to be much of a productive day when I spend ten minutes over morning coffee trying to match each color of the sunrise to its corresponding crayon. ~Terri Guillemets, "Carnation pink & atomic tangerine," 2016
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