Color Quotes · Page 36

What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.

— Jami Attenberg

I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness.

— Babe Paley

All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.

— Vladimir Nabokov

To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Color intermingled with color. People intermingled with people. Color and people intercoursing together.”

— Beatrice Sparks

A visit to Marrakesh was a great shock to me. This city taught me color.

— Yves Saint Laurent

Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors Â… and it's the shade that defines the light.

— Tori Amos

I am always in the hope to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors - colors…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Country, blues, rock 'n' roll, these are things that anybody can sing - male, female, person of color. From wherever you are…

— Pokey LaFarge

Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he…

— Samuel Smiles

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

— Clancy Brown

The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led…

— Nancy Hale

Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night, You orphan heirs of fixed destiny, Attend your office…

— William Shakespeare

I would go there quite frequently. I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was…

— William Eggleston

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when…

— Grandma Moses

From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the…

— Louis Adamic

Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps…

— Nancy Gibbs

You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal…

— Thomas Sowell

The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is…

— Leonardo da Vinci

It's so hard to do fittings [for Yeezy] because we want to do things that are inspiring, that people could look at…

— Kanye West

I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should…

— J. C. Watts

Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we…

— Slavoj Žižek

We live in a world that is dominated by science. And that's not a bad thing - not at all. But one…

— Simon Critchley

“Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.”

— Jacqueline Woodson

“What kind of bodies are movable and feasts. What color are visions.”

— Morgan Parker

Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective.

— Hermann Minkowski

In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color.

— Sonia Delaunay

Chromophobia is perhaps only chromophilia without the colour.

— David Batchelor

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.

— Robert Graves

Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.

— Henri Matisse

Puerto Ricans are many colors - we are Spanish, we're French, we're Thai, Indian, we're almost black, some of us.

— Rita Moreno

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When people ask me about color in my work, I tend to say that it came from spending a lot of time…

— Amy Sherald

Winter dawn is the color of metal, The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves.

— Sylvia Plath

I may not be your favorite crayon but I know that one day you'll need me to finish your picture :)

— Punkinhead Abhishek

I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.

— Adolph Gottlieb

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

— Ridley Scott

My favorite color right now is purple, but it used to be pink. It's kind of always going to be pink.

— Kristinia DeBarge

I obviously love blue hair, but it's not my favorite hair color. It's a bit of a nightmare to maintain.

— Julio Torres