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Color shows power

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20010805
Author:Rosemary Sadez Friedmann

Color is power. Color communicates. Color attracts. Color has force, weight, action and temperature. Now that's a lot for one element to do.

Regarding the first three elements of color described above, let me share a little poem with you written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning titled "The Lady's Yes":

"'Yes,' I answered you last night;

"'No,' this morning, sir I say.

"Colors seen by candlelight

"Will not look the same by day."

Without light there is no color. With a little light there is perception of color, but a shaded one. True color will not be visible until full light shines on it. ...

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