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Quotes About Colors

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
~ Edvard Munch
I usually keep my personal style simple and streamlined. I like classic colors like black, white, and beige. White and black is my favorite color combination, and I like to finish up my look with an accent of gold jewelry.
~ Aerin Lauder
I love the Middle East. My earliest childhood memories are of Jerusalem. I love the colors and smells and cadence of Arabic spoken in the streets of Cairo or Beirut. I also love the modernity and verve of Tel Aviv.
~ Kai Bird
The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black.
~ Joan Didion
I would like to do some serious drama. I really connect with emotional characters who have struggles and a lot of emotion and colors. I don't really want to do anything smiley and cheesy; it's not really my personality when I'm working.
~ Sarah Hay
You know what ends up on the markdown racks? All the weird colors. Guys don't wear orange or citron.
~ Mickey Drexler
I hope that I dress for my age. Because there's no need to be dowdy, is there? But I don't go with all the colours that everybody is wearing. I'm not very fond of lime green or orange, so I don't do that. I read all the fashion magazines, but most things are totally unsuitable for somebody of 79.
~ Mary Berry
I can almost see the music. It comes in the form of colors - colors jump out at me, and that translates into notes. They come fully formed: the orchestration parts, not just the melodies. Even though they're not always the right ones to use, the initial idea comes like that.
~ Ramin Djawadi
What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor.
~ Douglas Wilson
The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.
~ Tom Stoppard
The trees at Tse Bonito Park were yellow, the roadsides were streaked with the purple of the last surviving October asters, and overhead the sky was the dark, blank blue.
~ Tony Hillerman
Llegó el otoño con su espléndido cortejo de oros, malvas y rojos.
~ Unknown
El otoño no sólo trajo consigo la variación cromática de la naturaleza. Se diría que Dios -que no era mal paisajista- se complaciera, cada nueva estación, en pintar las mismas cosas con distintos colores. También trajo la melancolía: una mezcla de paz y vaga tristeza. Alicia se felicitó de haber encontrado la definición exacta de su estado de ánimo: una tristeza sosegada.
~ Unknown
Meren vihaiset vihertävät värit olivat muuttuneet rauhallisen sinisiksi, ja aallot kantoivat vaahtokruunujaan pikemmin koristeina kuin uhkauksina.
~ Tove Jansson
It was an early, very warm morning in July, and it had rained during the night. The bare granite steamed, the moss and crevices were drenched with moisture, and all the colors everywhere had deepened. Below the veranda, the vegetation in the morning shade was like a rain forest of lush, evil leaves and flowers ...
~ Tove Jansson
These and other tools help poems call our attention to moments when the ordinary nature of experience changes--when the things we think we know flare into brighter colors, starker contrasts, strange and intoxicating possibilities.
~ Tracy K. Smith
Glory had her tail curled around her talons and was holding her wings in close as wave after wave of odd colors spread through her scales. Deathbringer put one wing around her, gently, and she let him.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Besides, when it came to being colorful...we invisible kids learned to carry our colors on the inside
~ Paul Dini
Besides, when it came to being colorful we invisible kids learned to carry our colors on the inside. We let those colors out when we did things we loved... drawing, music, acting... those things that defined us and made us glow.
~ Paul Dini
The setting sun had turned the blue sky a brilliant orange, then soft pink merging to pearl; the plum velvet of night had come out of the east, spangled with stars.
~ Paul Gallico
Although I have the colors, only the Lord can mix them with such harmony.
~ Paulo Coelho
As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Colors are light's suffering and joy
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe