Color Quotes

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

I am definitely a person of color.

Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color.

A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.

Dreams, remembered or not, can color our mood for a good part of the day.

America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are.

What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.

Winter dawn is the color of metal, The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves.

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

You know, I change my hair color a lot, I do all sorts of different things.

To me, beauty and makeup and color is like the finishing touch on everything.

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.

When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.

There can be no evolutionary advantage to laying down memories of childhood or perceiving the color of a rose if it doesn't affect the way you're going to move later in life.

I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.

I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.

I have campaigned all over the state of South Carolina. It is the friendliest state in the country. And truly here people judge you by the content of your character not the color of your skin.

Color is everything. When color is right, form is right.

You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.

Colors close together on the color wheel are analogous and will make a calm room. Colors that are farther apart are complementary and add drama.

The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the model before you.

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

Identify in your work opposites of color, form, compositional arrangements, space, etc.

There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said to have color and a painting to have rhythm.

Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color.

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

It makes me furious to hear haters of all skin colors - especially Christian, Jewish, and Muslim fundamentalists - deride other people because of their different beliefs and lifestyles.

It can be a fascinating game, noticing how any person with vitality and vigor will have a little splash of red in a costume, in a room, or in a garden.

Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force.

God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does he make only one star shine onto the earth.

Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.

I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.

I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.

If artists do see fields blue they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them blue, they are criminals and should go to prison.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower drives my green age.

I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.

Clearly, if wed had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.

Voice really depends on the answer to the question, Who is telling this story? . . . That will color your diction-and determine your metaphors, your sensibility.

If you look closely at any face, you'll start to see that different areas of the flesh tones are tinged with four other colors - red, green, purple and yellow.

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

Say someone tells me their name - that name can turn into a taste or a color and that's how I categorize it in my mind. It's an easy way of categorizing things.

The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin.

A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."

I think colors are miraculous. We live in a universe that is extremely creative and magical. We become happier as we appreciate these things in nature.

The color white is the absence of memory.

The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.

Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.