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Quotes About Color

Our individual personalities are a gift of His design so that we might add color and variety to the world. And He can use our unique combination of circumstances—even the painful ones like mental illness—for our good and His glory.
~ Sally Clarkson
And although Margarita lived in a world that predated Technicolor, she always dreamed of the boy in rich pastels.
~ Salvador Plascencia
CALL it loneliness, that deep, beautiful color no one can describe: over these dark mountains, the gathering autumn dusk.
~ Sam Hamill
Carob works on the principle that, when mixed with the right combination of fats and sugar, it can duplicate chocolate in color and texture. Of course, the same can be said of dirt.
~ Sandra Boynton
Earth is embroidered with rainbow-colored garlands
~ Sappho
For I shall learn from flower and leaf, That color every drop they hold, To change the lifeless wine of grief To living gold.
~ Sara Teasdale
Splashes of crimson,
~ Sara Teasdale
She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
Naelin loved the forest, all the layers and shades of green, so many shades that there weren't words to describe them all - a spectrum of green, from the hopeful green of new leaves to the contemplative moss green on the forest floor, so dark it was nearly black.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
Most of the time I dress depending on my mood. I just throw on whatever I feel like wearing at the time, which tends to come from the palette of black, grey or red.
~ Kate Moss
Time is purple / Just before night.
~ Mary O'Neill
Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.
~ Paul Morand
All students need to know about color is the basic color wheel and complimentary colors. There are many books on color theory; do not waste your time and money.
~ Sergei Bongart
A single model enables me to focus on one thing at a time, separating design and form and color into three successive stages.
~ Thomas S. Buechner
The day before yesterday has always been a day of glamor, of gilt and glory. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe.
~ Vincent Starrett
The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
No matter what nationality or color is champion, we Irish like to say that we have a heavyweight champion, Gene Tunney retired, who can come back and take the title at any time.
~ Tommy Gibbons
That's sheer luck too: luck of the draw of birth: century, continent, nation, section, sex, color, socioeconomic sector.
~ Marilyn French
The mouth was not so much cruel as lifeless; thin, rubbery and the color of veal.
~ Mario Puzo
viborilla amarillenta daba de picotazos
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
allí. Un gran canchón rodeado de un muro ruin de adobes color caca —el color de Lima, piensa, el color del Perú—, flanqueado por chozas que, a lo lejos, se van mezclando y espesando hasta convertirse en un laberinto de esteras, cañas, tejas, calaminas.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Christopher explains that he ranks the day according to the number and color of the cars he sees on his way to school. Three red cars in a row equal a Good Day, and five equal a Super Good Day. Four yellow cars in a row make it a Black Day. On Black Days Christopher refuses to speak to anyone and sits by himself at lunch.
~ Mark Haddon
You'll join me sooner than you know in a place with . . . no illusions, where the truth is the only architecture, the only color, the only sound--where that which we sense merely on occasion, and which takes us up and gives us the rare and beautiful glimpses of the things we truly love, flows in deep rivers and tumbles about like clouds in the sky.
~ Mark Helprin
The spark of life is not gain. Nor is it luxury. The spark of life is movement. Color. Love. And furthermore...if you really want to enjoy life, you must work quietly and humbly to realize your delusions of grandeur.
~ Mark Helprin