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Quotes About Color

Les joues, jusqu'ici restées colorées, devinrent livides, les yeux semblèrent jeter des étincelles venant tout droit de l'enfer, les rides qui apparurent sur le front ressemblaient aux replis des serpents de la Méduse, et la charmante bouche aux lèvres brillantes de sang s'ouvrit presque en forme de carré, comme dans ces masques grecs ou japonais qui représentent la colère.
~ Bram Stoker
So what does that make you think about God? I think that maybe, if human beings have souls, that maybe their souls are in their eyes. That maybe that's what the color is. Their souls.
~ Brent Runyon
Above one of the doors covered by red velvet drapes in Harry's is a sign and on the sign in letters that match the drapes' color are the words THIS IS NOT AN EXIT.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Dogs can't see in colour, and psychos can't see in human.
~ Bruce Robinson
The stylist works by contrast. After a season of violet, one can predict a season of yellow.
~ Bruno Munari
It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself. But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple.
~ Terry Pratchett
But he found he rather liked Shadwell. People often did, much to Shadwell's annoyance. The Rajits liked him because he always eventually paid his rent and didn't cause any trouble, and was racist in such a glowering, undirected way that it was quite inoffensive; it was simply that Shadwell hated everyone in the world, regardless of caste, color, or creed, and wasn't going to make any exceptions for anyone. Madame
~ Terry Pratchett
I've always wanted... I wanted to give people joy.
~ Ellsworth Kelly
I'm a writer and a feminist of color, and I've written complex, powerful women for my entire career. I'm just one voice, but there are many others like me.
~ Marjorie Liu
It's so fun to get creative with various colors in the kitchen. The challenge is finding how to get enough color without letting the flavor overpower - unless that's what you want!
~ Molly Yeh
Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for people of color.
~ Jacob Batalon
I narrowed my eyes at it. Ming-de's little gift, I assumed. "You look better in color," I snapped. He sent me a sultry look over his shoulder. "Really? Most women think I look better in nothing at all.
~ Karen Chance
The eyes were the same color, darker than mine, to the point that they didn't seem to have a pupil as they regarded me quizzically. "For such a small creature, you cause a lot of trouble." "So people…keep telling me," I said, dizzy and weaponless, and wondering what this new hell was.
~ Karen Chance
Fresh blood at midnight isn't red. It's a purplish black that easily blends into the shadows.
~ Karen Chance
I watched the early morning light pass over and through the windows of colored glass, leaving streaks of red and green and yellow on the stone floor. When I was little, I used to try and capture the colored light. I thought I could hold it in my hand and carry it home. Now I know it is like happiness-- it is there or it is not, you cannot hold it or keep it.
~ Karen Cushman
I have a black sense of humor. You try living my life, see what color yours turns.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Life's a choice: you can live in black and white, or you can live in colour. I'll take every shade of the rainbow and the gazillion in between!
~ Karen Marie Moning
The house was decorated in unrelieved white and black. The people were, too. If it were up to me, I would carry a great big paintbrush around with me all the time, splashing color everywhere, decorating the world with peach and mauve, pink and lavender, orange and aquamarine. These folks seemed to think leeching the world of all color was cool. I decided they all must be deeply depressed.
~ Karen Marie Moning
The turquoise tide shimmered in shades of mermaid tails against the alabaster shore. The
~ Karen Marie Moning
There are no certainties but one. Death will come. My philosophy has always been: feckin' A—all the more reason to ride the hell out of it! Milk life for all you can get. Howl with laughter, scream with fear. Get sloshed on every color of the rainbow.
~ Karen Marie Moning
His eyes. She got lost in them for a long moment, wondering how she could have ever thought them tiger-gold. They were the color of dark whisky. And filled with some emotion. She stared. Something like … Despair?
~ Karen Marie Moning
I try to fill the emptiness deep inside me with Cheetos, but I am still depressed. Only now my fingers are stained orange. I am blue. And I am orange.
~ Karen Salmansohn
Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.
~ Karen Traviss
With no one but blacks around him, other than his own son, Thornhill saw that their skins were not black, no more than his own was white. They were simply skins, with the same pores and hairs, the same shadings of colour as his own. If black skin was all there was to see, it was amazing how quickly it became the colour that skin was.
~ Kate Grenville