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Quotes About Color

For holidays, I like doing special cheery touches around the table, like color-coordinating the plates and napkins to fit the theme.
~ Debi Mazar
We were poor. We were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Innocence is no Protection against the Arbitrary Cruelty of a Tyrannical Power : But Reason and Conscience are yet so Sacred, that the Greatest Villanies are still Contenanc'd under that Cloak and Color.
~ Roger L'Estrange
Roses are red and violets are purple, sugar is sweet and so is maple surple.
~ Roger Miller
Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me This supermarket life is getting long What is the heart life of a colour TV What is the shelf life of a teenage queen
~ Roger Waters
Must colour change?
~ Ronald Firbank
How could I ever have been happy with her," he had asked," when her favorite colour is crushed strawberry?
~ Ronald Firbank
Shall we evoke Morocco with a rose and lilac shoe?
~ Ronald Firbank
If I recollect, it's a mystic medley of mauves.
~ Ronald Firbank
A ship carrying red paint collided with another one carrying purple paint. Both crews are thought to be marooned.
~ Ronnie Barker
I love bright red drinks, don't you? They taste twice as good as any other color.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Ah, bak Diana ne güzel bir gökkuÅŸa??! Sence biz gittikten sonra Orman Perisi gelip onu boynuna eÅŸarp diye takar m??
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Indeed how might it be if things revealed their colors only when (in our terms) no light fell on them - if, for example, the sky were black? Could we not then say, only by black light do they appear to us in their full colors?
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Goethe's theory of the constitution of colours of the spectrum has not proved to be an unsatisfactory theory, rather it really isn't a theory at all. Nothing can be predicted with it. It is, rather a vague schematic outline of the sort we find in James's psychology. Nor is there any experimentum crucis which could decide for or against the theory.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The chief news is that I have grown a beard! Its colour is very much admired, and it is generally considered extremely effective, though some ill-bred persons have been observed to laugh. It is a red-brown of the most approved tint, and makes me look like a French decadent poet—or something equally distinguished.
~ Lytton Strachey
Já agora creio que não basta que os pregões de rua, como os opúsculos de seminário, encerrem casos, pessoas e sensações; é preciso que a gente os tenha conhecido e padecido no tempo, sem o que tudo é calado e incolor.
~ Machado de Assis
Como eu invejo os que não esqueceram a cor das primeiras calças que vestiram! Eu não atino com a das que enfiei ontem. Juro só que não eram amarelas porque execro essa cor; mas isso mesmo pode ser olvido e confusão.
~ Machado de Assis
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.
~ Maggie Nelson
Every sacrifice is another colour of your Rainbow!
~ Cass van Krah
Life is about using the whole box of crayons.
~ RuPaul
Teachers' favorite color ink, splashed and dripped down his face a grisly reminder of mistakes bruising his life.
~ Jazz Feylynn
What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person?... And then I realized it was the first time I could see the power of the wind. I couldn't see the wind itself, but I could see it carried water that filled the rivers and shaped the countryside.
~ Amy Tan
My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea, and my eyes are the color of water.
~ Anais Nin