Quotes About Color

The light is the color of brandy seeping. It has a taste. Your skin tastes it, like you're all over tongues. The taste is sugar-cane, slowly rotting, turning into the great god rum. It's always that magic hour those film-boys love to shoot down here. Always gold.

bottle green Jaguar.

I began to feel the whiteness in the room. If a neutral background color, say white, turned traffic-cone orange everywhere you went, you'd become chronically stressed and your mind would curdle like a slug in salt. That's how I felt. Only I had to pretend that I wasn't seeing traffic-cone orange everywhere.

There was malachite green, and red; the intense red known as worm scarlet—tola'at shani in Hebrew—extracted from tree-dwelling insects, crushed up and boiled in lye. Later, when alchemists learned how to make a similar red from sulfur and mercury, they still named the color "little worm"—vermiculum. Some things don't change: we call it vermilion even today.

Well my gun fires seven different shades of shit, so what's your favorite color, punk?

Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident.... Is this not form?"

Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn't just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about the secret rules, and the beautiful codes of respect between the atelier and the master.

White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

Jesus is the color that creates the light. God is the light that creates the color." Giovanni Gambino

Why is the sea sometimes green and sometimes turquoise, sometimes white and sometimes as black as lava? Why is it never just the colour of water?' Alessi asked. ?'It's God's will,' his grandfather said. 'That way the sailor knows when he can go out to sea and when it's best to stay on shore.

In Hong Kong, there was no People of Color club because they were all the same color, and if you said bad things about white people, it wasn't racism, it was resistance, unless you said it to their face. Then it was speaking truth to power.

Richard, having modestly but effectually scored the minimum number for the purpose, was in process of deciding whether a green or a canary-coloured Fluffy Hussy should be his boon companion for the rest of the day.

Almost all words do have color and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too.

I counted seventy-three shades of grey in an eight-by-ten room.

This was a small taste of a general problem: the invisibility in the media of the many women of color who pioneered the women's movement.

Artists talk to themselves on canvas, mumbling scattered colors of emotion.

Soul colors the artist so that the artist can color the canvas.

...autumn winds shaking color from the trees...

The green grass and happy skies court the fluttering butterflies.

Clouds: Clusters of fluted sea-shells, Coral fringed, pearl centered; The glory of the setting sun caught in their fragile rims. Above clear-cut cliffs of alabaster whiteness Is the pale globe of the full moon; The changing clouds are bits of silvered fluff Adrift in a sea of intense blue.

Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

In fact, why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?

My favorite color… the seam of a desert horizon.

Spring itself is Faith. In all its glory and color the true nature of our being is being reborn. Faith roots in our souls and grows in our hearts. Faith is the very beat of our hearts. Faith is the air we breathe. Faith is the lump in our throats and the tears we shed. Faith is the first rose that blooms.