Quotes about colors
RuPaul -
The whole point is to live life and be - to use all the colors in the crayon box.
Maria Montessori -
How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
Qwana Reynolds-Frasier - Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One
A LIE IS LIKE A BAD NEIGHBORHOODIT'S NOT SAFE TO LIVE IN
L. Frank Baum - The Magic of Oz
It's a bird of some sort. It's like a duck, only I never saw a duck have so many colors."The bird swam swiftly and gracefully toward the Magic Isle, and as it drew nearer its gorgeously colored plumage astonished them. The feathers were of many hues of glistening greens and blues and purples, and it had a yellow head with a red plume, and pink, white and violet in its tail.
Simona Panova - Nightmarish Sacrifice
Gray.The overcast skies had the colour of deadened stones, and seemed closer than usually, as though they were phlegmatically observing my every movement with their apathetic emptily blue-less eyes; each tiny drop of hazy rain drifting around resembled transparent molten steel, the pavement looked like it was about to burst into disconsolate tears, even the air itself was gray, so ultimate and ubiquitous that colour was everywhere around me.Gray...
Robert Frank -
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
Mervyn Peake - Gormenghast
She had expressed herself, as women will, in a smug broadside of pastel shades. Nothing clashed because nothing had the strength to clash; everything murmured of safety among the hues; all was refinement.
Guillaume Apollinaire - Zone
Oh ParisFrom red to green all the yellow dies awayParis Vancouver Hyeres Maintenon New York and the AntillesThe window opens like an orangeThe beautiful fruit of light("Windows")
Nathan Bedford Forrest -
I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
Lu Wei -
In cyberspace, people with different skin colors, nationalities, cultures and languages should be equally entitled to participation, free speech and development. We should abandon prejudices, respect differences, and be tolerant and open.
Milton Avery -
Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
Leigh Hunt -
Colors are the smiles of nature.
Robert Delaunay -
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
Gilbert Baker -
The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It's beautiful, all of the colors, even the colors you can't see. That really fit us as a people because we are all of the colors. Our sexuality is all of the colors. We are all the genders, races, and ages.
Bre Pettis -
My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program the software, and these guys were true hackers, trying to get more colors and sound and animation out of those computers.
Sabrina Carpenter -
I loved all of the 'Zenon' movies. Those were my jam mostly because of the fashion. I loved something about the space buns and the weird neon colors. I couldn't just wear that in real life because people would look weirdly at me, but maybe at a party or something.
Burgess Owens -
The true fans were capable of not only painting their cars and homes their team colors, but also naming family pets and offspring after famous NFL all-stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Victoria Moran -
'Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.'
David Bromstad -
We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors.
Jessica Pare -
My natural gravitation is toward the gray and the black and the white and the burgundy. Sort of muted, cool colors.
Harvey Fierstein -
In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.
Caroline Knapp -
Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.
Henry Rollins -
At some point they show their true colorsAfter the break upAfter the trial After the contract is signed and brokenTheir true colors stinkThese daysI find it hard to get along with themI want to push them until the colors come out And sometimes I hate them so much, I push and seeI do the same to the ones I likeThe ones I don’t care about I smile at real nice
Michelle Cuevas - Confessions of an Imaginary Friend
Yimello,' said Bernard finally, breaking the silence.'Gesundheit?' I asked.'It's a name for one of the colors that's invisible to us. Yimello," said Bernard. "There could also be glowl and novaly and replitz."'Yes.' I nodded, stunned the kid could actually string together so many words at once. 'And, uh, don't forget the beautiful grynn, the luminous dulloff, or the subtle winooze.'Bernard's face lit up. He stood and started pacing the room, speaking quickly. 'Or salty, and insomnia, and carefre
Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
We are the flowers that make up the Creator's vast and beautiful garden.
Natalie Bina - Vermilion Departure
J Abrams was driving off into the big stupid vermilion sky, and even though the color had been my favorite, I was sure that from now on, every time I looked at it I would feel nothing but sadness.
Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.
James S.A. Corey - Caliban's War
I mean, yes, I did ask that. But that’s not the part that you should be caring about right now. You lied to me. Your involvement with weaponizing the Protogen project is fully exposed, and that question is like asking what color Tuesday was. It’s meaningless.
Christina Engela - Other Kids Are Kids Almost Just Like You
Some kids are black, or brown - some kids are red, and others white.Kids come in all different colors, shapes and styles - beautiful and bright!
Chris Martin -
Life is beautiful in all its colors, even the darker ones, they’re here for a reason.
Garima Jain - Shades Of Life
Colors add meaning to life,Some hidden facts they do imbibe.One color could signify two things,The onus lies on us,As to how we take it.
Charmaine J Forde -
It must be October, the trees are falling away and showing their true colors.
John Geddes -
...did you know that in your eyes there are bright flecks of green and orange - and that they are lovely?...
V.C. Andrews - Petals on the Wind
The mountain trees that grew between the pines were a brilliant blaze of fall colors, like fire against the emerald green of the pines, firs and pruces. And it was, as I'd told myself long ago, the year's last passionate love affair before it grew old and died from the frosty bite of winter.
Lorin Morgan-Richards -
Autumn colors remind us we are all one dancing in the wind.
Craig Groeschel - Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
Terri Guillemets -
Some colors exist in dreams that are not present in the waking spectrum.
Tim Gunn - Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible: The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet
In 1916, Infants' and Children's Wear Review insisted upon pink for boys and blue for girls. In 1939, Parents magazine claimed that pink was a good color for boys because it was a pale version of red, which was the color of Mars, the war god. Blue was good for girls because it was the color of Venus, and of the Virgin Mary. So, pink for girls is a relatively recent trend, and utterly random.
Anna Godbersen - The Luxe
As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red.
Simone Elkeles - Perfect Chemistry
I catch sight of Luis with one of my bandannas on his head and my gut tightens. I yank it off him. "Don't ever touch this, Luis.""Why not?" he asks, his deep brown eyes all innocent.To Luis, it's a bandanna. To me, it's a symbol of what is and will never be. How the hell am I supposed to explain it to an eleven-year-old kid? He knows what I am. It's no secret the bandanna has the Latino Blood colors on it. Payback and revenge got me in and now there's no way out. But I'll die before I let one of
Debasish Mishra -
The world is filled with colours galore, each day is a colourful festivity.
Isaac Asimov - Foundation
Somewhere on the world was the Emperor's palace, set amid one hundred square miles of natural soil, rainbowed with flowers.
Anthony Doerr - All the Light We Cannot See
I have been feeling very clearheaded lately and what I want to write about today is the sea. It contains so many colors. Silver at dawn, green at noon, dark blue in the evening. Sometimes it looks almost red. Or it will turn the color of old coins. Right now the shadows of clouds are dragging across it, and patches of sunlight are touching down everywhere. White strings of gulls drag over it like beads.It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at i
Helen Hodgman - Jack and Jill
The sun was up - stuck like half a tinned apricot on a sky awash with all the colours of a fading bruise. Down below the living dead were forming their complaining queues at bus stops.
Anthony Doerr - About Grace
And the skies: in one day the sky could travel from green at dawn to a noon-time blue so severe it was almost black to hot silver in the afternoon to roiling burgundy at sunset. Just before night it flowered in yawning, imperial violets. Wedges of mauve, cauldrons of peach - skies more like drugs than colors.
Olivia Wilde -
When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
Olympia Brown -
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
Mike Colter -
We all act differently in certain places. We don't want to admit it, but we're different where we grew up than we are with our family and than we are with the guys that we went to college with or our fraternity brothers. People just exist differently. It's small, subtle things, but different colors come out. That's all there is to it.
Jay Parini -
We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we've managed over more than two centuries to create a way of life that allows for a reasonable degree of upward mobility, that prizes individual liberty, promotes freedom of religion and genuinely values equal rights for all citizens.
Christie Brinkley -
I've always believed in a rainbow diet. As many colors and foods as you can eat, the better, because if you focus on one food, there's bound to be a report that comes out that says, 'Broccoli actually... ' So I mix it up a lot. And I take vitamins, like Biosil, which I take for my hair, skin, and nails.
Anthony Bourdain -
As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effective way. You know, it's clowns and kid's toys and bright colors and things like that.
Jillian Michaels -
There is really no room in any healthy diet for trans fat, artificial sweeteners, and artificial colors in food.
Daniel Humm -
The visual aspect of a dish is so important the shapes and colors and overall design have to strike the right mood and convey the right idea.
Douglas Wilson -
What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor.
Oscar de la Renta -
Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
Karen Salmansohn -
Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you.
Emile Durkheim -
The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.
Kim Kardashian -
White is actually one of my favorite colors. I have a white car. I love white.
Quincy Jones -
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
Glenn Miller -
By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight.
Frida Kahlo -
I was a child who went about in a world of colors... My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.
Keith Haring -
Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.
Joan Miro -
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
Edvard Munch -
I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
Edvard Munch -
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
Joss Stone -
I'm 19, I'm a girl, I'm very young, I like all sorts of different things, I like all sorts of different styles of music, I like all sorts of different styles of clothes, I like all sorts of different colors of hair.
Mary J. Blige -
I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up.
Paul Rand -
Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients.
Amy Grant -
I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.
Carson McCullers -
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
Blake Lively -
Design, whether it's on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It's mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns - elements that you wouldn't often put together in an interesting way.
David Carson -
Some people hate lime-green; red has all this emotional baggage. Blue seems to be overall one of the more positive colors, and a little more serious than yellow.
Marquis de Lafayette -
I gave my heart to the Americans and thought of nothing else but raising my banner and adding my colors to theirs.
Charli XCX -
I always see my songs in colors, and I'm often more inspired by movies and photographs than I am by other songs when I write my music. I'm also inspired by fashion, and I want my music to be a visual painting of what's in my mind.
Pedro Almodovar -
I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.
Maliny Mohan - Shades Of Life
True love happened rarely and standing in the brink of one, it would in all certainty be an act of cowardice to retreat without letting her know his desire.
Ratish Edwards -
White and blueWhite and blue ,You loved it then, i loved it too,Your eyes and your voice,I loved it then, i love it too,Your questions and the troubles,You loved it then, i loved it too,Your stories and the excuses,I loved it then, i love it too,Your songs and the promises,You loved it then, i loved it too,
Mehmet Murat ildan -
Happiness has only one colour: The Bright! The bright of red, the bright of green, the bright of any colour! Happiness is bright! It shines, it sparkles, it glints!
Rebecca McNutt - Smog City
Have you ever noticed how as an adult, all the bright colors go out of your life? Now that I’m not a kid anymore, things always look gray, like a clothesline draped with laundry that’s been washed too many times and left to stand in the wind. I guess that’s what growing up is… it’s a fading photograph.
Aberjhani - I Made My Boy Out of Poetry
Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
Markus Zusak - The Book Thief
I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise.
Markus Zusak -
People observe the colors of a day at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quiet clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment.
Avijeet Das -
Like a splendid mosaic of myriad colors, she in all her hues of sensitivity would paint her feelings in your mind’s gray skies. She was the butterfly making you run after her. She was the Zahir, a mirage that transcended borders and time-zones.
Beth Revis - A Million Suns
Maybe one day the smears of paint Harley left throughout Godspeed will fade, and maybe the stars never will, but i'd rather have Harley's colors.
Peggy Webb - The Mona Lucy
How could he try to get Sandi to reveal her true colors when she was a rainbow?
T. Greenwood - Undressing the Moon
We pretended she'd only gotten lost in the colors of fall.Piper
Steven Magee - Light Forensics
Anytime that you look up to the clear sky and see colors in it, you should be suspecting that you are looking at a flow of energy through the sky that is causing a gas to glow.
Alexandra Kleeman - You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
Outside the windows, everything is getting darker. First the yellow dies from the light, then the green and pink. The world is a blue version of itself, momentarily, before the blue snuffs out, too and it is all night.
Holly Bodger -
The president is not at all like the powerful icon I imagined her to be. She’s more like I remember Amma: small and delicate with a sari that dances behind her as she walks. Of course, the president is clad in white, the color that shows eternal mourning of a lost child, while Amma never wore white. She wore reds and oranges and deep greens. Colors of celebration, of happiness. Perhaps she wears white now. Now that I am dead to her.
Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway
Gratitude doesn't change the scenery. It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors.
Elaine Seiler - Your Multi-Dimensional Workbook: Exercises for Energetic Awakening
The slower frequencies are dropping away to be replaced by the faster, higher, more refined frequencies that are part of the Energetic Evolution.
Anthony T Hincks -
If ever you want a rainbow in your home, go to Sandwich Glass Museum, and let them put one in your heart too.
Charles Lee - The Way To Dawn: End of Days
It was then that we connected. His sound bounced through my head and out my eyes, painting my world with new shades of color. I still remember the smile that unnoticeably took my face as I inched for another touch.
Oliver Gaspirtz -
Imagine a wall that's green on one side and red on the other. You stand on one side and only see green. I stand on the other side and only see red. We'll both be right about the color we see, even though we disagree on what color the wall is. Being able to realize that the other person has a valid point, even if you disagree with it, that's maturity.
Sanober Khan - a tempest
...and so many colorsI will have seen...the menacing greysand pine greensthe soft pink and purplesof springand summer blueand so many otherswithout you.
Ashly Lorenzana -
Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.