Quotes About Color

Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint you can at it.

EVENTIDEDark and light strikingeach other, vividly etching wild colorsthrough the horizon.The charm of sunset makes me wantto scurry home.

These my sky-robes, spun out of Iris' woof.

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

In the first two decades of the twentieth century, experts advised men to have their kitchens painted apple-green. The experts believed that apple-green quieted nervous people, and especially wives beginning to think of suffrage, of careers beyond the home. Today the explorer of color schemes finds in old houses and apartments the apple-green paint still gracing the inside of the cabinet under the kitchen sink, and the hallways of old police stations and insane asylums.

there is nothing so dangerous in its consequences as injustice to individuals- whether it arise from prejudice of color or from any other source; that a wrong done to one man is a wrong to society and to the world.

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the Deity to be a source of delight.

They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.

album sleeve, black, with a black triangle, from which flowed a narrow rainbow of light. Zeke

QYou can not change the color of a room using the same color paint.

Loveliest of any blossoming thing to her was that green stalk with its white bells. White was the most beautiful color she knew. Yet when she would say that to Amos he would remind her that the brown of the earth from which the flowers came was a good color too.

Most early-twentieth-century books didn't have illustrations. Corporate cookbooks, you know, ones that were created to sell a brand of something like vegetable shortening or flour, popularized the use of black-and-white photograpic images in the nineteen twenties. By the nineteen forties, most cookbooks incorporated illustrations, and colour photography became more popular. But the cookbook as a sort of a coffee table book didn't take off until the eighties and nineties.

It was strange to see that no matter what color the clothing first appeared—and they were all hues, from earthy copper and garnet to the blue of sky and shadow—in different light all turned to some shade of green, as if there were a third plane to the cloth's weaving beyond the warp and weft.

Sulla linea dell'orizzonte, al crepuscolo, là dove la roccia rossa incontra il cielo blu oltremare, proprio nel punto in cui avviene l'unione, corre un nasto turchese adagiato sopra la grande terra scura. Un colore transitorio.

The sky is the color of gray flannel, the darkness broken only by the dormer window of another early riser. The woman who lives in that attic painted her walls yellow, and the reflected light bounces out like a spring crocus. If light were sound, her window would be playing a concerto.

He closed his eyes for a moment, and the color of his eyelashes was like the color of regret.

Theo shook out the half square of heavy silk. "It will make all the difference to this insipid gown." With one sharp wrench she pulled out the lace fichu tucked into her bodice and replaced it with the scarf. It flashed raspberry red against the almond-colored muslin of her gown.

Their color slowly faded from out of the flowers; but their scent lingered to honey the air he breathed.

I asked them why when they persecute men, for religion or colour it was seen by the world as oppression and when they persecute women, it was dismissed as tradition.

Kandinsky maintains that yellow is the color of life... Now we know why this hue so hurts the eyes.

Be joyful today with a good dose of pretty flowers.

A force of circumstance is not poverty merely but color.

Black is a very sentimental colour. You can hide any rubbish behind it.

Tone is light in another shape. In music, instruments perform the functions of the colors employed in painting.