No Color Quotes

Color... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes.

Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.

Everybody's the same color with the lights off.

The meaning of a word - to me - is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words.

All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because our basis is spoken word.

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

I always loved to paint. As a kid, I liked to dip my paintbrush in black ink. They gave colors to me to use, but I didn't like them very much.

If we would see the color of our future, we must look for it in our present; if we would gaze on the star of our destiny, we must look for it in our hearts.

Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration.

Don't be afraid of putting on color, refine the work little by little.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.

My wearing my hair in locs on an Oscar red carpet was to showcase them in a positive light, to remind people of color that our hair is good enough.

It is perfectly logical and proper to recognize differences between races and colors and creeds - as long as we don't classify them as being better or worse.

There is no model, there is only color.

Your color doesn't define your brain nor your soul. You can stand next to any human being and challenge that person as long as you use your brain.

One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men.

The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.

the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.

If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.

The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence.

The only color I don't have is navy brown.

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.

The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear.

Color and I are one. I am a painter.

My money's riding on this dark horse, baby My heart is sayin' it's the lucky one And its true color's gonna shine through someday If we let this Let this dark horse run

Our attitudes are the crayons that color our world.

If light is the spiritual quality of painting, color is surely its heart and passion.

One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.

If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.

There aren't very many women of color in positions of power, period. Much less on television.

The great thing about the moon landing is that my grandmother got the first color TV in order to be able to see the moon landing that was in black and white.

I really feel like the sky is the limit. I'm a dreamer, and I dream in full vivid color HD.

Actors have no color. That's the art form.

Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men this restfulness has a beneficial effect, but after a time it becomes tedious.

I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism.

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.

I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!

You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece.

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise--a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames--but still a paradise.

I feel like this is a feminist issue and is going to be a part of a feminist conversation, and I wanted images of women of color in that conversation - feminism historically has left us out.

Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must be felt throughout.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound.