Quote#Death
Brown is a sober and sedate colour, grave and solemn, but not dismal,…
Quote byGeorge Field · 1777–1854
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Chromatography (1835), Ch. 18, p. 156.
English (original)
Brown is a sober and sedate colour, grave and solemn, but not dismal, and contributes to the expression of strength, stability, and solidity,—vigour, warmth, and rusticity,—and in minor degree to the serious, the sombre, and the sad; not with the painter only, but also with the rhetorician and poet, with whom, nevertheless, many of the broken colours are yet "airy nothings" and "without a name."
— George Field
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