Color Quotes

The muted color scheme allows the occasional brighter yellow or red to pop out on the wall in a show, which I like.

It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.

My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.

Political correctness sometimes does great work when it helps equalize the playing field when it comes to language, but it does a great disservice when it tries to silence a person of color.

Sometimes Frank sighed, thinking he had caught a tropic bird, all flame and jewel color, when a wren would have served him just as well. In fact, much better.

Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There was no holding on to any of it, and no slowing it down.

Start [the movie] in color. Color is always attributed as fun, and black and white is very sad.

If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table.

The Castro government is disproportionately white given the color of the island. It doesn't look like Cuba.

My colors are logically chosen.

My closet is in perfect order at home. All my dress shirts, all my casual shirts. All my suits, they're color coordinated. All my ties are color coordinated.

Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.

My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language has an effect on meaning.

So many humans. So many colors.

It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them

The day was gray, the color of Europe.

Summer came. For the books thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews.

Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone else, other than the exterior.

Entertainment and art are not isolated. Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration and the color work became more of a critique of society.

Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended.

I usually start by doing one or more color studies of the subject on a piece of canvas taped to cardboard.

Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.

Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches; but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?

Thought maps existence; fantasy colors it.

I like not to know, unless it's something that I need to know, specifically, for how I color a performance.

It was shameful and embarrassing that there were two years in a row without a single actor of color nominated. That's insane.

In the landscape, colors are more neutral than you may think. Pay close attention to this. Small areas of rich color can make the whole painting look colorful.

God knows just the place where you'll be placed. He has a barren living room in desperate need of warmth and joy. A corner of the world needs some color. He selected you with that place in mind.

While we appreciate our ancestry as Americans or even our ethnic ancestry and our color of skin, we believe that our real citizenship is in Heaven.

I like bold colors but usually wear black.

Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death

My favorite color is purple. I have a huge velvet purple comforter on my bed.

My eyes change colors, which is why you guys have never been able to figure it out.

I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like “Midnight in Paris.” Nostalgia isn’t so enticing.

Care not what they say about the color of your skin let the brilliant light of your soul blind them.

Don't eat breakfast cereals that change the color of your milk.

Avoid too much intense color. Make sure you mix colors and try them out. It's always good to do a swatch.

I couldn't bare the idea of not being in regular communication with the audience I love - young women of color.

Another reason for switching to color is world television. In a few years, it will all be in color, and you can't compete against that with black-and-white films.

If you listen inside, the brush will want to run toward a color. What you really need and want is very close, and the brush goes to it quickly if you don't think.

Of course it would make far more sense to invest in education and job creation in poor communities of color, rather than spend billions of dollars caging them and monitoring them upon release.

We are in a social and political context in which the norm is to punish poor folks of color rather than to educate and empower them with economic opportunity.

Most of the people you look at in the early days of Harlem - the zoot suits, the music, the style of fashion, the vibrant colors - that's all influences from the south.

The first thing you see when you walk into a store is color.

I am the kind of person that is drawn to colors against my will.

I worship makeup. The basics are always: Stila shadows, LeClerc powder for my crazy shiny skin, Bobbie brown liner pot, Chanel mascara, and Koh Gen Do for foundation, Nars for colors and sparkles.

I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships among them? Those relationships are everything.

It's always hard for me to find a therapist who is a black woman or even a woman of color. It's something that we've always been told is not for us. It's top down.