Color Quotes

God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which he intends to draw the portraiture of some illustrious beauty.

Momma, you're special," Renesmee told me without any surprise, like she was commenting on the color of my clothes.

Usually I'm thinking about the palette. I'm thinking about the color for the most part, then I'll start thinking about composition and movement.

I pray that former rejection and deep hurts will not color what I see and hear now.

To be more precise it was the color of heartache.

I wonder if Effie will still be wearing that silly pink wig, or is she'll be sporting some other unnatural color especially for the Victor Tour.

I think you'd be pretty in any color."-Posy to Octavia

I know that the battle scenes, as well, are quite gory and quite strong. Battle was romantic, but it was far from being easy. It's nice, in both respects, to have that color and contrast.

My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind...

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

I like organizing things. I like organizing my closets, so that I know where everything is. And and I used to color code it.

I think theres too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.

Go to American Apparel; they have all of the colors of socks.

I focus a lot on my voice because I want it to be an instrument as well. I want my voice to add color.

I like to wear a lot of one-tone color outfits - same color trousers, same color shirt.

I want to change the color of Starbucks from green to red. Whose job was it to say, This is going to be green? I want that to be my job.

The young girl in my story is to be as sensitive to praise as a prism is to light. Whenever anybody praises her she breaks into colors.

Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.

There are still courses in the United States that I am not allowed to play because of the colour of my skin.

I try not to worry about other people's music. But if there's one thing that I hear these days, it's that people try and put [music] down so tight that they take all the color out of it.

So much for keeping things business when it came to Jenna Darrow. If this had been a test, he figured he’d just failed it with flying colors.

I've never bothered about my color.

I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders.

Off the court, I tend to stick to the classics, but I like to have fun with color and accessories. I'm from Spain, so colors are important for me.

I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an error.

I've always kind of been in the middle of every room, trying to get people together, no matter what color they were.

I wonder if any element of interior design is more personal than color? Nothing can more quicly reveal aspect of personality and character than the choice - or absence - of color.

Rich colors are typical of a rich nature.

If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.

Sometime is that appointment, the final one to meet. Let's color all with love, for Time is naught but fleet.

Blood is a strange color. It's darker than you expect it to be.

I'm not worried about what's in fashion, what's not in fashion, what are the colors of the season. I go with my gut instinct because every time I haven't it's been a mistake.

My day-to-day look is inspired by comfort, color and just how I'm feeling that day.

Through music you learn not to care about the color of someone's skin.

Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the technology of planned obsolescence.

For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.

I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color.

I just hope this [Emmy] is now a part of the status quo that women of color are included in the narratives that continue to write lead roles for us.

As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.

I think white artists have a responsibility to be not only naming white supremacy, but to be using their power and privilege to support artists of color.

It's a wonderful thing, the D.T.'s. You can travel the world in a couple of hours. You see some mighty funny and curious things that come in assorted colors.

Until Color TV came along, BW TV was too muddy to be enjoyable.

Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!

Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.

I have a pretty good sense of when to express misgivings. And white critics are just as capable of pointing those things out and noticing them as people of color.

Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.

[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.

The best cure for racism is to have somebody shoot at you. Man, it does not matter then what color the arse is that comes to save yours-black or white, you're ready to give it a big fat kiss.

The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.