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Quotes About Color

Only a colored look can see a black and white photo.
~ Wesley D'Amico
What color do you need to finish painting your paradise?
~ Wesley D'Amico
Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
Your color's nice, James—pity about your face, though," said a freight car.
~ Wilbert Awdry
Michotte had a different idea: he argued that we see causality, just as directly as we see color.
~ Daniel Kahneman
More advice: if your message is to be printed, use high-quality paper to maximize the contrast between characters and their background. If you use color, you are more likely to be believed if your text is printed in bright blue or red than
~ Daniel Kahneman
Here we encounter a new aptitude of System 1. An underlying scale of intensity allows matching across diverse dimensions. If crimes were colors, murder would be a deeper shade of red than theft. If crimes were expressed as music, mass murder would be played fortissimo while accumulating unpaid parking tickets would be a faint pianissimo.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
~ Danny Kaye
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
~ Danny Kaye
Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Transgender people are the victims of an astonishing amount of violence. One out of every four trans people has experienced a bias-driven assault, and the numbers are higher for trans women, trans people of color, and people who identify as neither male nor female.
~ Dashka Slater
A rhododendron bud lavender-tipped. Soon a glory of blooms to clash with the cardinals and gladden the hummingbirds!
~ Dave Beard
She feels like kicking out all the windows And setting fire to this life She could change everything about her using colors bold and bright
~ Dave Matthews Band
Oh, sheep. I've lost all my sobbing colours.
~ Dave McKean
and I need a green shirt," the man said into the telephone. "But not grass-green. It should be more like a traffic-light green ..." Eric came into the store. "I saw the milk truck. It rode right past me. The Milkman
~ David A. Adler
Acertain blue of the sky is so damn blue that only blood could be more red.
~ David Abram
The open sky in front of him was a deep purple, slowly fading into the bright blue of day, with tinges of orange from the sun on a distant, flat horizon.
~ James Dashner
Drenched in British purples, I have offered up my tones: pigeon breast, hind belly, balky mule lung, monkey bottom pink, lapis lazuli and malachite, excited nymph thigh, panther pee-pee, high-smelling hen hair, hedgehog in aspic, barrel-maker's brothel, revered rose, monkeybush, turkey-like white, sly violet, page's slipper, immaculate nun spring, unspeakable red, Ensor azure, affected yellow, mummy skull, rock-hard gray, brunt celadon, shop soiled smoke ring.
~ James Ensor
Loneliness invades the soul late afternoon. Sundown can test you with its flood of color, but once it's full dark you're fine.
~ James Galvin
Truth knows no color it appeals to intelligence.
~ James Hal Cone
This is the emancipation of the nigredo from literalism. Like cures like; we cure the nigredo by becoming, as the texts say, blacker than black – archetypally black, and thereby no longer colored by all-too-human prejudices of color.
~ James Hillman
The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.
~ James Joyce
keep your focus on aesthetics: notice Rist's use of the color red, but avoid making connections, actually just avoid using your head—lose yourself in her immersive installations instead.
~ James Payne
The things that we preceive as beautiful may be different, but the actual characteristics we ascribe to beautiful objects are similar. Think about it. When something strikes us as beautiful, it displays more presence and sharpness of shape and vividness of color, doesn't it? It stands out. It shines. It seems almost iridescent compared to the dullness of other objects less attractive.
~ James Redfield