Color Quotes · Page 53

The civil rights movement was not a mirage... It was live and in living color.

— Yolanda King

As a person of color, I was just really tired of the fact that I wasn't seeing my story in the culture.

— Justin Simien

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

— Henri Matisse

Luminosity is a quality dependent as much on technique as on the physical properties of individual pigments.

— Walter J. Phillips

I love to mix colors. For me, I don't have a rule, like "you can't wear silver and gold." You can mix…

— Olivia Palermo

Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.

— Paulo Coelho

I love my hair. But I don't even remember my original color because I started bleaching it so young. I was, like, 11.

— Nicki Minaj

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

— Charlize Theron

When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more…

— Joan Didion

America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will…

— Alice Walker

I was surrounded by a lot of male writers of color who have this incredibly bizarre relationship to masculinity. It's like we…

— Junot Diaz

Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What…

— Josef Albers

There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas.

— Adam Young

The meaning of a word - to me - is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“So I'm gonna write it down to scream it out, and I'm never gonna be the same again. Fear is the color…

— Tegan Quin

We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of…

— Walter Dean Myers

It was so big, that view. I’ll never remember it properly. How can anyone remember something that big? I don’t think people’s…

— Lucy Christopher

Like many insects, flies are most sensitive to green light. This means that they would see their world as 'black and white,'…

— Michael Dickinson

We think of color as a thing that we’re receiving. And if you go into one of the Skyspaces, you can see…

— James Turrell

“Remember when we didn't know that colours can mix and form other colours. When we were not introduced to strokes that brushes…

— Mona Adnan

Why take notes? The obvious reason is to remember. Visual note-taking translates what we hear into pictures that give context, color, and…

— Tom Wujec

I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned…

— Malcolm X

Sports was a great equalizer. It didn't have color. It didn't matter whether you were rich or poor, black or white. It…

— Howard Schultz

If we can make sure that that young boys starting at the age of three or four already knows their colors and…

— Barack Obama

A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres.

— Henri Matisse

Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

— Alison Bechdel

With a lot of these social realist films, the first thing you do is drain the color.

— Sean Baker

When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky

— Jandy Nelson

Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.

— Cathleen Falsani

I'm very into dark colors. I try to rock the dark against the ghost white skin as much as humanly possible.

— Vanessa Marano

Colors are forces, radiant energies that affect us positively or negatively, whether we are aware of it or not.

— Johannes Itten

I Am A Crayon. I May Not Be Your Favorite Color, But Soon You'll Need Me To Complete Your Picture...

— Pacifiersucker

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.

— Clarence Darrow

During my youth, I was fascinated by the colors of Van Goth's paintings

— Joseph Pisani

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

— Michael S. Smith

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

— Ted Naifeh

There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

— Sun Tzu

Color is everything. It's another piece of the visual language to express what you're trying to say.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

I love white walls because white reflects the light and is a great backdrop for art.

— John Rocha