Political sloganeering and posturing meant nothing; you had to celebrate the joy of life in the face of all those grey forces and dead spirits who controlled everything
Irvine Welsh 'Ecstasy' |
Die Welt ist bunt, aber mein Leben ist Grau
Esbericum advert, Burda Magazine |
Not the compromise between loss and renaissance, but an overwhelming colour of grey Dion Fortune 'Psychic Self Defence' |
I'll serenade you 'til I'm old and grey
Jimmy Osmond 'Long haired lover from Liverpool' |
I mention it because Paris, as everyone knows, is a pre-eminently grey
city. I mention it because, in the realm of watercolour, American painters use this
made-to-order grey excessively and obsessively. In France, the range of greys is seemingly
infinite; here the very effect of grey is lost Henry Miller 'Quiet days in Clichy' |
The cement glows grey
Teenage Jesus & The Jerks 'Burning Rubber' |
What if the whole world wide web was like this? http://greyday.org/ |
Ugly is in - Grey is the new white
Frieze Magazine, Issue 42 |
Grey hair is caused by a loss of melanin Adam Lee-Potter in The Sun, 7/1/2000 |
Grey. It makes no statement whatsoever; it evokes
neither feelings nor associations; it is really neither visible or invisible
Gerhard Richter |
Grey skies to blue ABC 'The look of love' |
The water was grey, the deep grey of wet stones by a Chinese lake, a grey you couldn't see through
Emily Prager 'Roger Fishbite' |
She also correlates a grey aura with depression
John Whitman 'The psychic power of plants' |
It's a grey world
Attitude Adjustment 'Grey World' |
Who's the new grey man whispering sweet policies into the PM's ear?
The Guardian, February 1995 |
Grey: general name for achromatic or neutral effects without hue
which lie between white and black
Methuen 'Handbook of colour' |
Anyway, they're too soft, they'd let the greys take over
'Les Nuits Fauves' |
What I mean is that this photo is grey, a hundred shades and tones of grey
Toni Davidson 'Scar Culture' |