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Quotes About Color

I have always painted pictures where human love floods my colors.
~ Marc Chagall
Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor, like a beautiful-sunset greeting cards they used to make so many of in California. High-gloss hearts. The danger is grayout.
~ Margaret Atwood
Now she imagines him dreaming. She imagines him dreaming of her, as she is dreaming of him. Through a sky the color of wet slate they fly towards each other on dark invisible wings.
~ Margaret Atwood
Pink is supposed to weaken your enemies, make them go soft on you, which must be why it's used for baby girls. It's a wonder the military hasn't got on to this.
~ Margaret Atwood
oil paints...the look of licked lips.
~ Margaret Atwood
He's got his cigarette going. He offers her one; this time she takes it. Brief match-flare insider their cupped hands. Red finger-ends. She thinks, Any more flame and we'd see the bones. It's like X-rays. We're just a kind of haze, just coloured water. Water does what it likes. It always goes downhill.
~ Margaret Atwood
The sky darkens from ultramarine to indigo. God bless the namers of oil paints and high-class women's underwear, Snowman thinks. Rose-Petal Pink, Crimson Lake, Sheer Mist, Burnt Umber, Ripe Plum, Indigo, Ultramarine – they're fantasies in themselves, such words and phrases. It's comforting to remember that Homo sapiens sapiens was once so ingenious with language, and not only with language. Ingenious in every direction at once.
~ Margaret Atwood
There are other colors, pink for instance: pink is supposed to weaken your enemies, make them go soft on you, which must be why it's used for baby girls. It's a wonder the military hasn't got onto this. Pale-pink helmets, with rosettes, a whole battalion, onto the beachhead, over the top in pink. Now is the time for me to make the switch, I could use a little pink right now.
~ Margaret Atwood
her body feels different, no longer taut and sinewy but sponge-like fluid. Saturated. It has a different energy, a deep orangy-like pink, like the inside of a hibiscus.
~ Margaret Atwood
The bathrobe was magenta, a colour that still makes him anxious whenever he sees it.
~ Margaret Atwood
When chlorophyll chewing gum came into fashion two decades later, it was that colour.)
~ Margaret Atwood
A green so pure that beside it emeralds were dirty and grass dull. The green of Egypt's fields, the fierce green of her crops under the sun, glowing under the eye of Re. Green seemed the most Egyptian of all colors: her Nile, her crocodiles, her papyrus. And Wadjyt, the cobra goddess of Lower Egypt, whose very name means "the green one.
~ Margaret George
Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.
~ David Bromstad
Technology is grey. More technology, less colors. We're building a world with colors only in poems.
~ Magdalena Ciocan
What am I thankful for? MY POLKA DOTS!!
~ Dusty Rhodes
It's time we become comfortable with the uncomfortable conversations about race...Instead of being color blind, we need to be color brave.
~ Mellody Hobson
Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only color.
~ Rumi
There's a rainbow in the sky, all the time, don't be blind
~ Ziggy Marley
At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
~ Tom Petty
Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.
~ James Clerk Maxwell
There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood- Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme, With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.
~ Bliss Carman
I would like the colors, their shapes and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total space at the time they are considered.
~ Richard Diebenkorn