Color Quotes

Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for the solemn note. Color in nature is never pretty, it's beautiful.

I see a lot of people of color in my fanbase and at all my shows, and it's really awesome.

I only use three primaries, so the nice thing is I can't have favorite colors.

I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.

We're one race. No matter our religion, beliefs, mother tongue, or skin color.

You can tell that hold is effective because his face is red and the rest of his body is the color of a bottle of 2% milk.

To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.

Americanism is not a matter of skin or color.

What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one color or form echoes another in a different part of the canvas.

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.

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.

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

If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night.

Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.

Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.

The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.

In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color.

I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress.

Soups are a great way to introduce a lot of vegetables to kids. Stir-fries, too, because they contain so many different shapes and colors.

You can put in a curl or put on a lip color or mascara, but the important thing is that the health of your skin and hair is shining through.

Words, like flowers, have their colors too.

Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.

Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

Hell is the backdrop that reveals the profound and unbelievable grace of the cross. It brings to light the enormity of our sin and therefore portrays the undeserved favor of God in full color.

The colors I use may clash or vibrate against one another but this is done intentionally.

Color harmony was thrown out years ago, as restrictive chains were broken forming my free style.

To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy.

The Constitution of the United States knows no distinction between citizens on account of color. Neither does it know any difference between a citizen of a state and a citizen of the United States.

In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.

There's something about black. You feel hidden away in it.

It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.

If you force me to pick one color, it'd be Black... It covers up the things inside of me that I don't want to be known. Well, for the same reason, black is the color I hate, too.

In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.

I've learned that regardless of color or age, we all need about the same amount of love.

I've always liked to go down a different path. Being a woman of color, I never followed a cookie cutter way.

Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new, And all is lovely.

Visual forms are not perceived differently from colors or brightness. They are sense qualities, and the visual character of geometry consists in these sense qualities.

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.