They were seated at a table strewed with shreds of cloth, gummed cotton, green taffeta, little palettes of colours, small pencils, and all the necessary apparatus of artificial flower-making.

LE BRUN is watching me, I know, His palette on his thumb, To catch the glory and the glow That dazzle as I come; So be itbut let MOLIÈRE go, And LULLI crack his drum; They do but waste their time;

Now that I have come to the love part of my story, I am suddenly conscious of dingy common colors on the palette with which I have been painting.

One colour thus becomes the parent of many, when the painter takes a portion of this and of that from his palette in order to imitate flesh.

I've no skill of brush and palette like those unforgotten men; My Cecilia must content herself with an unworthy pen.

He will do to religion what he will do to art; mix up all the colours on your palette into the colour of mud: and then say that only the purified eyes of Teutons can see that it is pure white.

I set my palette to-day at ten o'clock and waited until four o'clock this afternoon before he came in.

Genius comes with inspiration, as inspiration does with genius; and we are our own architects and draughtsmen, rioting at liberty with Nature's splendid palette at our command, and no thought of rule or stint.