Color Quotes

I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.

We only have to recall the color of the faces of those who were most devastated by Katrina, to know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans.

I don't even read the papers. I read 'USA Today' because it has color photos.

When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more like water color.

With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the art world since Velazquez.

I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going to move the needle forward, it's WHITE people who need to acknowledge their role in racism.

Well, TV does a better job. In film, the justification has been that movies focused on stories or featuring people of color don't make money.

Gray is the color of all theory

There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.

Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.

The objective laws of form and color help to strengthen a person's powers and to expand his creative gift.

I love green. Green is the color of nature, trees. I'm a tree freak. I spend a lot of my time planting trees, nurturing them, and studying them. It's one of the colors I couldn't live without.

But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes.

The spark of eros provides color and flavor to delight in our sensuality. Without generating this creative juice, many people feel uninspired and dry in their lives.

Goethe argued there is no color in the physical world; there are only patterns of light and dark. These patterns are a sensation produced by our very souls.

We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't.

When all candles are out, all cats are grey, All things are then of one color, as who say. And this proverb faith, for quenching hot desire, Foul water as soon as faire, will quench hot fire.

The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.

Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!

Some visualize the Pistols era in shades of black and white. It wasn't. Actually, the colors I envision are neon or army dirt green with fluorescent pink--anything that would annoy."

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend.

Emotions are the color of life; we would be drab creatures indeed without them. But we must control these emotions or they will control us.

Playing President Clinton (in Primary Colors) was risky and challenging. Some people thought Saturday Night Fever was risky, because no one had danced in movies for years.

For me, I want to create a environment for the songs to live in. So one song by itself only tells a piece of the story, but in the context of the album, more of the colors are revealed.

Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral.

I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.

I like experimenting with different color lip glosses and lipsticks and things like that.

With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of our blood and the salt of our tears.

Color deceives continuously.

We never really perceive what color is physically!

One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men.

During my youth, I was fascinated by the colors of Van Goth's paintings

Watercolor is an alchemical medium - colors mixing with water, joining with it, being extended by it - creating new life where none had been before.

The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color.

Blue Boy proves that if you don't quite fit in, then you might as well stand out with as much wit, color and audacity as you can muster.

Hearts got broken every day. Nobody died from that. But it did kind of fade the sunlight and drain the color from the days.

Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.

The distinct blue, red, and yellow colors... though they have not the kind of harmony which is produced by a variety of broken and transparent colors, have the effect of grandeur.

I buy everything in sight. It took my last ounce of control not to buy one of these in every color.

I think of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on the surface.

I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling.

Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.

Ronald Reagan's attack on people who receive public assistance was partially an attack on people of color.

As actors, we want to go find the humanity and make it more nuanced and fill in the colors, rather than just being suit people who crack cases, 'cause they aren't that.

I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.

The problem of empathy is pretty universal, and pretty much breaks down across America. People can't feel beyond their drawn borders. And skin color and culture have a lot to do with that.

Justice should be blind especially color-blind and able to fairly deal with the very real need for honest law enforcement.

Life is not black and white. The closes we ever get to either of those colors is wearing them.

I have a black sense of humor. You try living my life, see what color yours turns.