Quotes About Color

To find out what color egg a hen will lay, examine her earlobes. Hens with white earlobes lay white eggs; hens with red earlobes lay brown ones.

She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin.

Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.

The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.

Even for the people who are color-blind to any degree, I believe their experience would also be affected [ in Lords of Rainbow ] if everyone else too only perceived the world in colorless monochrome.

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

He who wishes to become a master of color must see, feel, and experience each individual color in its endless combinations with all other colors.

As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.

When all candles are out, all cats are grey, All things are then of one color, as who say. And this proverb faith, for quenching hot desire, Foul water as soon as faire, will quench hot fire.

Never let criticism bring you down. Even a broken crayon still has its color.

At your one glance you have captured me, it seems like all this is a miracle, in your one glance, you fascinated me, enveloped my heart with hope, in your one glance I knew the truth, life is good and filled with color, in your one glance I am ok, at your one glance, I fell in love.

A rainbow in the sky or a bird that can fly often create Joy that money can't buy!

His presence was like a stone in my shoe, impossible to ignore. His skin was the color of just-pressed olive oil, and smooth as polished wood, without scabs and blemishes that covered the rest of us.

It was spring, and we were surrounded by the profusion of Anatolian fertility. For three weeks the earth would paint herself in every color, burst every bud, unfurl each rioting petal.

He was not so easy and even as he pretended. Living with him was like standing beside the sea. Each day a different color, a different foam-capped height, but always the same restless intensity pulling towards the horizaon.

I'm always this color," I said. "Because I used to be made of stone.

I'm always this colour,' I said. 'Because I used to be made of stone'.

If I were today on my deathbed, I would name my love of the color blue and making love with you as two of the sweetest sensations I knew on this earth.

Like many self-help books, The Deepest Blue is full of horrifyingly simplistic language and some admittedly good advice. Somehow the women in the book learn to say: That's my depression talking. It's not "me." As if we could scrape the color off the iris and still see.

Fifteen days after we are born, we begin to discriminate between colors. For the rest of our lives, barring blunted or blinded sight, we find ourselves face-to-face with all these phenomena at once, and we call the whole shimmering mess "color." You might even say that it is the business of the eye to make colored forms out of what is essentially shimmering. This is how we "get around" in the world. Some might also call it the source of our suffering.

51. You might as well act as if objects had the colors, The Encyclopedia says. –Well, it is as you please. But what would it look like to act otherwise?