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Quotes About Color

I don't remember any blue poodles.
~ James Thurber
If textbooks recognized Lincoln's racism, students would learn that racism not only affects Ku Klux Klan extremists but has been normal throughout our history. And as they watched Lincoln struggle with himself to apply America's democratic principles across the color line, students would see how ideas can develop and a person can grow.
~ James W. Loewen
nu cred ca pot trai intre oameni care nu iubesc muzica. Nu pun nicio alta conditie, dar, pentru mine, fara muzica viata nu ar avea culoare.
~ Jane Austen
No seriously. She looks like a banana. She's wearing bright yellow and brown. It's making me hungry just looking at her.
~ Jane Green
She noticed the sun going down, and for once she looked at the sky. She stopped and mentioned to herself how blue it was, how if you could reach up and taste the color of dusk you might turn into something shimmering and silver; you might be transformed into the moon itself.
~ Jane Hamilton
My favorite color is fuschia. That's a fancy way of saying purple.
~ Jane O'Connor
There are such subtle qualities affecting the nature of all thought, such emotional gradations, that no one is ever identical — (smile) and incidentally, no physical object in your system is an exact duplicate of any other. The atoms and molecules that compose it — any object — have their own identities that color and qualify any object that they form.
~ Jane Roberts
The plant succession that had begun in March with snowdrops and early crocuses would soon flicker out in a blaze of orange chrysanthemums and show its last pinpoints of color in bittersweet and ash berries hanging like embers in the general misty brown of the world.
~ Jane Smiley
but from this distance, the velvety reds, flashing yellows and glassy whites [of the roses] seemed to break up the light of the summer sun into its various elements and cast it back far more brilliantly than any other flower ever could, seemed not exactly of the earth, but of space and air itself.
~ Jane Smiley
I failed math twice, never fully grasping probability theory. I mean, first off, who cares if you pick a black ball or a white ball out of the bag? And second, if you're bent over about the color, don't leave it to chance. Look in the damn bag and pick the color you want.
~ Janet Evanovich
I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.
~ Nnedi Okorafor
For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppable,' I'm producing it, and I have an opportunity to create some of that excitement with style and form and different color templates and things like that. So, as an artist, it's really exciting.
~ Kirk Cameron
Anytime I see an unusual combination of colors or patterns or texture, I buy it.
~ Peter Marino
Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for him to build a composition by first outlining figures and objects in black and then filling the interstices in a perfunctory manner that can put one in mind of a museum-shop coloring book.
~ Martin Filler
I think my sense of color I have got from my upbringing in Peru.
~ Mario Testino
What I always say to people is dress from the feet up. If you don't normally wear colour, try some colour on your feet; it's the place, I think you can have fun and update your outfit.
~ Edgardo Osorio
I love bright shades because they're just so uplifting. They boost your energy and mood.
~ A. J. Odudu
Pucci was always my favorite brand when I was in college. It has a similar DNA as my label, both in the sexy, uplifting point of view and in the use of color and surface pattern.
~ Matthew Williamson
I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.
~ Penn Jillette
There were people I know that got upset that I kissed people; I kissed them for luck and love, that's all. That's what my mother did to me. There were people upset that I would embrace or hug someone of another color.
~ Richard Dawson
After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.
~ Fay Godwin
I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.
~ Brad Pitt
My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.
~ Roy Lichtenstein
In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color.
~ Sonia Delaunay