Color Quotes

You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!

I'm so uncomfortable wearing colors in public. I really am. Even denim. If I've got a day off in a town, I want to go out for a walk I'll put on denim. But almost everything I've got the black on.

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.

To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.

The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.

If you want someone to feel warm, you dress them in a warm color and put a warm light on them and you get the picture. Sometimes, all that needs pushing a little bit to help tell the story.

You can only learn to paint by drawing, for drawing is a way of reserving a place for color in advance.

Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty.

The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.

Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.

The real color of my hair is mouse. I always want to be ginger, which I was when I was born, or blond, because I live in L.A., and I want to look like I go surfing without any physical effort.

Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.

My color is my joy and not my burden.

Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?

I encourage more blacks and people of color to get a passport. That's one way to help put people on an equal platform.

The good painter is the one who buries a color every day.

The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.

See what you can do with your daring with color and your ignorance mixed with it.

Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my experience with the flower - and what is my experience if it is not the color?

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.

Contrast warm to cool. Make color sing, ring like a bell. Work from big to small.

I enjoy vanity . But I can't stick to any of that lifestyle for too long because, when its true colors come out, it's empty and cold and soulless.

Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man.

we are drawn to each other like drops of water, like the planets we repulse each other like magnets, like the color of our skin.

My favorite color is green.

I play to all people - all colors, all creeds ~ drunk, sober, everybody.

I can find something between sight and hearing and I can produce a fugue in colors as Bach has done in music.

Color exists simultaneously with form. Both elements are constantly associated but color strikes you more - a rose for instance - sometimes form - the human body.

Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.

An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him.

In some places you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive. I also take into account historical realities that some of this range in color is the legacy of white supremacy.

I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

Color has such a friendly appearance, that I always see it with fresh delight, now with all its tints, like the spirits of the light, it nestles in and penetrates all physical forms.

There is no idea so bad that it cannot be made to look brilliant with the proper application of fonts and color.

I would go there quite frequently. I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.

I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another doesn't work. I like to conceive a painting in real scale and in color.

Brown is a manly color

In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.

I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.

Thousands and thousands of colors paint the bosom of the earth so gaily.

If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.

There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.

Drawing is the skeleton of what you do and color is its flesh.

Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.

I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.

I love my hair. But I don't even remember my original color because I started bleaching it so young. I was, like, 11.

Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.

In a drop of rain can be seen the colors of the sun.

Versatile Tangerine is striking enough to stand on its own and adds vitality to a printed pattern. Good natured and friendly, but with a tangy edge, this fun-loving color invites a smile.