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Quotes About Color

I've been 40 years discovering that the Queen of all colours is black.
~ Auguste Renoir
I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.
~ Lee Radziwill
Attitude is the mind's paintbrush; it can color any situation.
~ Barbara Johnson
Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It's not so much the color of suit as it is about the fit, cut, style, and, of course, attitude you have when wearing it.
~ John Varvatos
She wore a dress the same color as her eyes her father brought her from San Francisco.
~ Danielle Steel
time she decorated the nursery in neutral
~ Danielle Steel
Despair is always described as dull, when the truth is that despair has a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottled silver.
~ Daphne Merkin
Her black eyes picked up a touch of green from her sweater, transforming them into the eerie night forest color of childhood terrors.
~ Unknown
No vision has ever come true, no promise has ever been kept. But then there was you, and you were the promise that would obliterate all of the disappointments of the past. Everything about you insisted on it. Your color, your hair, the way light projects from every part of you. You were the sun that would burn away sponge putrid broken promises of the world.
~ Dave Eggers
Het licht bleef uit de lucht lekken, blauw, omrand door paars en toen, daaronder, dikke stroken roest en oranje.
~ Dave Eggers
The left's obsession with identity politics is the reverse of the melting-pot principle that America was founded upon: a place where everyone, regardless of race, religion, and color, is welcome as long as they blend into the fabric of our (free) society.
~ Dave Rubin
A number of the wrought-iron fences that encircled the courtyards and gardens of the homes were painted the color of gold on their European-inspired spikes and finials.
~ David Baldacci
But hang on a minute. Since when was 'random' associated with colour and 'definite' with drawing? Since when did drawing and colour become ciphers for order and chaos? Perhaps it doesn't matter: the prejudice is in place.
~ David Batchelor
Why do some trees stay green while others change their color?" "Certain trees need to show off, dear. I'm sure that my big brother could explain why it happens. Dahlaine loves to explain things, and he can be very tedious about it. I prefer simpler answers. The trees are sad because summer's almost over.
~ David Eddings
And her eyes. I cannot say what color Lenore Beadsman's eyes are; I cannot look at them; they are the sun to me.
~ David Foster Wallace
But what of Lenore, of Lenore's hair? Here is hair that is clearly within and of itself every color—blond and red and jet-black-blue and honeynut—but which effects an outward optical compromise with possibility that consists of appearing simply dull brown, save for brief teasing glimpses out of the corner of one's eye.
~ David Foster Wallace
My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.
~ William Shakespeare
He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.
~ William Shakespeare
Coal-black is better than another hue, In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood.
~ William Shakespeare
Nay, pray you, seek no color for your going, But bid farewell and go. When you sued staying, Then was the time for words. No going then! Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows' bent, none our parts so poor But was a race of heaven. They are so still, Or thou, the greatest soldier of the world, Art turned the greatest liar.
~ William Shakespeare
The raven chides blackness.
~ William Shakespeare
Es ist nicht wahr, dass die Nacht alles grau macht. Es ist ein unbeschreibliches, unnachahmliches Blaugrau – das Grau für die Katzen und das Blau für die Frauen –, das die Nacht so schwer und so süß ausatmet und das so berauscht, wenn es uns zwischen halb zehn Uhr abends und Viertel nach vier morgens anweht.
~ WOLFGANG BORCHERT
To a human, the fall-colored leaves are gorgeous. To a red or yellow leaf, I can guarantee they find the green ones lovelier.
~ Woody Allen