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Quotes About Color

But I insist that hollyhocks were brought to New England for the same reason they were taken to Old England, for the sake of beauty, for the satisfaction of seeing those crinkled silken petals spread their color in midsummer.
~ Hal Borland
My favorite color is glitter.
~ Internet meme, c. 2009
Sensation invested itself in form and color and radiance, and what his imagination dared, it objectified in some sublimated and magic way. Past, present, and future mingled; and he went on oscillating across the broad, warm world, through
~ Jack London
Death is the heritage of life; a man's vitality is like air in a bladder. Poinct this bubble and away, away, away, flees life, like the color of fading dream.
~ Jack Vance
Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
~ James Baldwin
Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
~ James Baldwin
But as long as we in the West place on color the value that we do, we make it impossible for the great unwashed to consolidate themselves according to any other principle. Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
~ James Baldwin
Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
~ James Baldwin
Most Negroes cannot risk assuming that the humanity of white people is more real to them than their color. And this leads, imperceptibly but inevitably, to a state of mind in which, having long ago learned to expect the worst, one finds it very easy to believe the worst.
~ James Baldwin
He was held together, in short, by a dream... and was united with his brothers on the basis of their color. Perhaps one cannot ask for more. People always seem to band together in accordance to a principle that has nothing to do with love, a principle that releases them from personal responsibility.
~ James Baldwin
The sea, as much as the light, gives this curve of coast it's flavor. The light takes it's color from the sea, sometimes seems to be emerging from it. And the sea here is ever-present. On clear days it coats the air with a transparent tinge of palest blue that salts and sharpens every detail.
~ James D. Houston
blue eyes so light that it looked like she sent them out to be bleached
~ James Ellroy
Unlike most of the other crayons, Black has hardly been used. People probably avoid Black because it isn't considered a happy color [...] I, however, like Black. It is a color that makes me comfortable and the color with which I have the most experience [...] I like Black, goddamnit, and I am going to give it its due.
~ James Frey
I, however, like black. It is a color that makes me comfortable and the color with which I have the most experience. In the darkest darkness, all is black. In the deepest hole, all is black. In the terror of my Addicted mind, all is black. In the empty periods of my lost memory, all is black. I like black, goddammit, and I am going to give it its due.
~ James Frey
I love how controversial pink is. Men still feel uncomfortable wearing pink. It's ridiculous.
~ Natalie Prass
The writing is the springboard for your intuitive stuff and then you see, maybe a colour of what you want to achieve. Then you bring in the technique you've learnt. But when you're on film, you're not always in control of that. That's what makes me believe in a kind of collective unconscious, a sort of experience you draw on.
~ Miranda Richardson
Police departments, since the start of the history of this country, have been used to enforce unconstitutional laws that were designed to discriminate against communities of color and particularly African Americans.
~ Lori Lightfoot
The piano is an instrument that can easily sound overly thick, and I love to think that I can work with textures - particularly the inner textures inside the melody or the bass line. There is an analogy there with painting; I love paintings where you see colour underneath the colour and, underneath that, more texture and shape.
~ Stephen Hough
It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and he and the wonderful Berliners make it a sheer riot of orchestral colour.
~ Charles Hazlewood
Brown is definitely my colour. I like it's understated drabness.
~ Sean Lock
I like to look at it as things and people and whole society in general being uneducated about facts. There are a lot of stereotypes. But I don't see color, I don't see race.
~ Peyton Hillis
For many of us, lavender's deep colour and its unforgettable fragrance encapsulate the heady joys of Provence.
~ Carol Drinkwater
Lightning hides the colour of night
~ Munia Khan
Daffodils are yellow trumpets of spring
~ Richard L. Ratliff