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Quotes About Colors

There were 10 or 15 years where all the Scandinavian movies were gray and light brown. I got really bored with it. I really felt that movies had to have that life of vivid colors.
~ Susanne Bier
You fall in love differently when you are young and far from home in a seductive place. You fall in love with the very air you breathe, and the vivid colours and the unbearably sweet sensation of distance and unaccustomedness.
~ Howard Jacobson
The colors of 'The Nutcracker' ballet score have become a part of the vocabulary of film music. It's where so much of the 19th-century romantic music that I call upon as a film composer is rooted.
~ James Newton Howard
I see the world as voices, as colors, as it were. From book to book, I change, the subjects change, but the narrative thread remains the same.
~ Svetlana Alexievich
For me, it's really like, okay, if you go far with the unexpected materials and unexpected proportions or volumes, then keep the colors quite simple and straightforward for men.
~ Dries van Noten
I always imagine them at nightfall, in the dusk of a slum or a vacant lot, in that long, quiet moment when things are gradually left alone, with their backs to the sunset, and when colors are like memories or premonitions of other colors. We must not be too prodigal with our angels; they are the last divinities we harbor, and they might fly away.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Miró los árboles y el cielo subdivididos en rombos turbiamente amarillos, verdes y rojos.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
But again the world has been spared. Light romans the streets inventing dirty colours And with a certain remorse For my complicity in the day's rebirth I ask my house to exist
~ Jorge Luís Borges
But again the world has been spared. Light roams the streets inventing dirty colours And with a certain remorse For my complicity in the day's rebirth I ask my house to exist
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Still, winter is an abstract season: it is low on colors, even in Italy, and big on the imperatives of cold and brief daylight. These things train your eye on the outside with an intensity greater than that of the electric bulb availing you of your own features in the evening. If this season doesn't necessarily quell your nerves, it still subordinates them to your instincts; beauty at low temperatures is beauty.
~ Joseph Brodsky
I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.
~ A. S. Byatt
The Dormouse looked out, and he said with a sigh: "I suppose all these people know better than I. It was silly, perhaps, but I did like the view Of geraniums (red) and delphiniums (blue).
~ A.A. Milne
Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.
~ Aberjhani
The floor consisted of the most colorful marble that is found in our mountains. The slabs overlapped so well that scarcely a joint could be seen; the marble was smoothed and polished very finely and the colors so arranged that the floor gave the impression of a lovely picture. Moreover it gleamed and shimmered in the light that was streaming in from the windows.
~ Adalbert Stifter
I colori da noi tutti fervidamente amati, attestano la nostra venerazione del passato. In qualità di socialisti nazionali riconosciamo nella bandiera il nostro programma. Nel rosso ravvisiamo l'idea sociale del movimento, nel bianco l'idea nazionalista, nella croce uncinata la missione di combattere per la vittoria dell'uomo ariano antisemitico
~ Adolf Hitler
Know that you are beautiful and don't doubt your own word. Seize the day and if I can tell you anything philosophical remember that everything is to live for. There are positive measures hidden in every shadow. Sister, you are created to bloom and live for the moment. The sorrow is there because you are going to be happier. See all the colours. Separate the colours and breathe stronger than before. I am extremely fond of you. I love you.
~ Adrian Levy
One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.
~ Robert Graves
Men are definitely getting more avant-garde, experimenting with colours, patterns and fabrics.
~ Jasmine Guinness
If you look at how beautiful the eye can be, it has its own inside patterns and colors.
~ Barbara Januszkiewicz
For me personally, snorkeling in a cove in Hawaii, floating along, and looking at all the animals and the colors - I mean, that's pretty peaceful.
~ Stephen Hillenburg
My favourite colours have always been '60s Miami-inspired gold and peach - feminine but not too girlie.
~ Zoe Foster Blake
I love pens, especially when writing on good-quality paper. But I don't have a favorite - I try all kinds in all colors. Like most folks, I misplace them a lot, so I don't use anything too fancy.
~ Shira Goodman
Because I'm a synesthete I see characters in colors and I perceive a W as green.
~ Robert Cailliau
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colors which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose
~ Plato