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)
“He could jazz up the map-reading class by having a full-size color photograph of Betty Grable in a bathing suit, with a co- ordinate grid system laid over it. The instructor could point to different parts of her and say, “Give me the co-ordinates.”... The Major could see every unit in the Army using his idea.... Hot dog!”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)