Color Quotes · Page 34

My natural gravitation is toward the gray and the black and the white and the burgundy. Sort of muted, cool colors.

— Jessica Pare

Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.

— Lady Bird Johnson

Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.

— Nicolas Poussin

To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.

— Conrad Hall

“She looks at me as though she’s trying to see the colors of my soul.”

— Emily McIntire

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Leaf! you are so big! How can you change your color, then just fall! As if there were no such thing as…

— Frank O'Hara

I want to represent my color and ethnicity. To be proud of our heritages is really cool.

— Elana Meyers

As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effective way. You know, it's…

— Anthony Bourdain

There are so many reasons, but a big reason is that the literary world is simply too white. When there are more…

— Porochista Khakpour

The mass incarceration of poor people of color, particularly black men, has emerged as a new caste system, one specifically designed to…

— Michelle Alexander

“She was rain to a parched desert She was color to a gray sky She was the beautiful butterfly you longed to…

— Avijeet Das

I feel like I'm still discovering my stage style, but I love - well, I'm not a huge color person onstage, but…

— Kelsea Ballerini

We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies…

— Marge Piercy

When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my…

— Sammy Hagar

My wigs are ever changing in height, width, color, size. They make me feel happy. Wearing them makes me feel like I…

— Nicki Minaj

I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the…

— Dennis Quaid

There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this…

— Barack Obama

After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color,…

— David Levering Lewis

When a rainbow appears vividly in the sky, you can see its beautiful colors, yet you could not wear as clothing or…

— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can…

— Diane Ackerman

Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An…

— Paul Cezanne

Failure is an inescapable part of life and a critically important part of any successful life. We learn to walk by falling,…

— Tal Ben-Shahar

Photography is much more about elimination than inclusion. The images we make with a lens typically eliminate ninety percent of our field…

— John Paul Caponigro

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

— Anonymous

It's wrong to discriminate based on skin color when there are so many other reasons not to like someone.

— Dennis Miller

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

— Jessamyn West

I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.

— Jesse Ventura

Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form-all these are the work of Lucifer.

— Kenneth Anger

Women should look at themselves and decide for themselves what color or length they should wear.

— Sonia Rykiel

Imitate the habit of twilight,/Taking time to open the well of color/That fostered the brightness of day.

— John O'Donohue

I used to go with solid blue, but recently I've found that a mix of red and green is a better fit…

— Tichina Arnold

“Esperanza's side had so many colors, Crayola sent a scout.”

— Harlan Coben

The problems faced by writers of color are analogous to the problems face by women writers.

— Ken Liu

Am a color pencil. though I ain't your favorite color. you will surely need me one day to complete your picture

— Akussung Kenneth

It's like a koala pooped a rainbow on my head and I can taste the colors.

— Paul Becker

I think viewing people by the color of their skin is one of the dumbest ways to view people.

— Bobby Jindal

Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.

— Yves Klein

The more colorful the food, the better. I try to add color to my diet, which means vegetables and fruits.

— Misty May-Treanor

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

— Claudia Black