Color With Quotes

#1. Many photographers are apt to confuse color with noise, and to congratulate themselves when they have almost blown you down with screeching hues alone-a bebop of electric blues, furious reds, and poison greens.

Walker Evans

#2. I think he was a little like the lizard that changes color with its surroundings. He appeared far more a gentleman in a gentleman's house. In that inn, I saw him for what he was. And I knew his color there was far more natural than the other.

John Fowles

#3. Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

George Eliot

#4. One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinite variety of images.

Sonia Delaunay

#5. The ears were large, flaring forward, the eyes limpid amber, in which the pupil floated like a glittering jewel, changing color with shifts of the light: obsidian, emerald, ruby, opal, amethyst, diamond.

William S. Burroughs

#6. We live in a world of entertainment in full color with a lot of fast action, a world in which many children grow up thinking that if it isn't fun, it is boring and not worthwhile. Even in family activities we need to strike a balance between play and work.

Joe J. Christensen

#7. Everybody's the same color with the lights off.

Cee Lo Green

#8. We don't take orders from you, Sergeant." Quain said. "Your man tried to assassinate-"
"He isn't mine. My man has eyes that change color with the seasons.

Maria V. Snyder

#9. One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men.

Joseph Joubert

#10. King shrugged and looked back at Harlen. Please tell me you have a plan. Because my baby girl really likes to color with me.

Erin Kellison

#11. I expected it would be the same for me, and I wouldn't show up as a wolf in black tights and a lacy pair of underwear - as amusing as that would be. No way was I going to show them I was a nasty pasty color with freckles.

Kim Harrison

#12. We become intoxicated with color, with words that speak of color, and with the sun that makes colors brighter.

Andre Derain

#13. Longhorns are unique - each and every one of them is a different color with a different design.

Janine Turner

#14. I believe that white people need to check themselves, account for their privileges, and undergo whatever interaction with communities of color with that understanding. They have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.

Bocafloja

#15. The design is a really flat primary color with all sorts of abstract geometric shapes, just implying something. And then you'd have your characters running from something with guns. It was very expressionistic.

Don Hertzfeldt

#16. His shoulder-length hair was a rich, dark-brown color with a slight wave to it and it flowed behind him as he ran into the center of the gypsies. He was tall, muscular, and so beautifully handsome, yet primal. He looked magnificent.

Madison Thorne Grey

#17. The whole body reacts to color. If you were to walk into an all-neon-pink room, it would be difficult not to react. I think it is a unified, human thing to feel color with everything. It is like standing next to a bass speaker plugged into your eyeballs.

Jim Drain

#18. He kissed me with color, with drumbeat, and a surgeon's precision. He kissed me with who he was, the sum of his life - and it was all encompassing. I wondered what I kissed him with since I was only broken parts.

Tarryn Fisher

#19. Don't let your character change color with your environment. Find out who you are and let it stay its true color.

Rachel Scott

#20. Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

#21. Her light brown eyes were the color of sherry, fringed with long, thick, gold-tipped lashes.

Anne Rivers Siddons

#22. The seasons split at the seams: spring, summer, fall and winter. I've always pictured them as giant sacks filled with air and color and smell. When it's time for one season to be over, the next seasons splits open and pours over the world, drowning its tired and waning predecessor with its strength.

Tarryn Fisher

#23. 1974 meant big cuffs, bell-bottoms, platform shoes with two-tone colors, and body-conscious shirts.

Kyle MacLachlan

#24. I met a girl with raven dark hair and eyes the color of emeralds ...

Jay McLean

#25. I like the word clandestine. It feels medieval. Sometimes I think of words as being alive. If clandestine were alive, it would be a pale little girl with hair the color of fall leaves and a dress as white as the moon.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#26. When we use stereotypes, we take in the gender, the age, the color of the skin of the person before us, and our minds respond with messages that say hostile, stupid, slow, weak. Those qualities aren't out there in the environment. They don't reflect reality.

John Bargh

#27. When it comes to art, buy with your eyes, not your ears. I tried very hard not to 'decorate' with art. Art should be reflective of your personality and what's going on in your head-not reflective of the colors of a sofa.

Jason Pomeranc

#28. We have a new joke on the reservation: 'What is cultural deprivation?' Answer: 'Being an upper-middle class white kid living in a split-level suburban home with a color TV.'

John Fire Lame Deer

#29. 'Black film,' that term allows studios to just marginalize a movie and say, 'We've made our black film. We've made our film with people of color in it,' as opposed to, 'I just feel like people of color should be in every genre.'

Gina Prince-Bythewood

#30. The sun was rising in the distance, pulled up by its lazy, invisible string, and the sky was shot through with color. Her hair was washed in gold, her cheeks, in gold, and her eyes were as knowing as a psychic's.

Brittany Cavallaro

#31. I feel like Dorothy, back in Kansas, a black-and-white girl in a black-and-white world, with memories in color.

Kristin Hannah

#32. With animated film, you have to create the sonic world; there's nothing there. You get to color things in more and you're allowed to overreach yourself a little bit more, and it's great fun.

Hans Zimmer

#33. Little by little, I've reached the stage of using only a small number of forms and colors. It's not the first time that painting has been done with a very narrow range of colors. The frescoes of the tenth century are painted like this. For me, they are magnificent things.

Joan Miro

#34. My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

Douglas Trumbull

#35. Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the chromatic feeling of that landscape.

Maurice De Vlaminck

#36. The spaces I want to be in are nurturing and soft and saturated with color. Our cities don't have enough of that, and as humans we need it.

Janet Echelman

#37. With reflowable pages you can change things like the size of the writing, the color of the screen, and all sorts of other stuff. You can also highlight things and make notes.

EMag Special Editions

#38. Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which ... can be dispensed with.

Harold Rosenberg

#39. People fall in and out of love with the rising and setting of the sun. Rather like a boy who loves the color green one day, only to discover on the morrow that he truly prefers blue.

Renee Ahdieh

#40. A woman had joined the two men sitting at table three. She was a blonde, one of those fatal blondes, six foot tall or near enough, with hair the color of clover honey.

Martha Reed

#41. I tell him there'll be an army waiting for him, and your friend is only concerned with the color of their uniforms. What's this really about?"
Max shrugged. "A girl."
I glared at Max. "Dude. Shut up.

Brodi Ashton

#42. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

Wassilly Kandinsky

#43. I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. It cost $15. They just used straight bleach, so my hair was the color of white lined paper, and my eyebrows looked like they were done with a thick black marker.

Amy Poehler

#44. I hasten to sleep so that I might dream
and colour my mind with a myriad of things.

Shaun Hick

#45. There was nothing wrong with the color. He'd call back the next day and say it was fine. He'd just needed to feel powerful for a few minutes. One of the younger hotshots had just made him feel inferior in a meeting.

Liane Moriarty

#46. I invented the colors of the vowels!
A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green
I made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.

Arthur Rimbaud

#47. It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.

Rachel McAdams

#48. There was something about that form of comedy that's just difficult. It never really felt like you could just fully commit to all the colors that you carry with you.

Donal Logue

#49. The only problem I have with American money is that it's all kind of the same color, so I'm always having to look. Whereas with Australian money, you have purple, blue, yellow ... We keep it nice and simple.

Emily Browning

#50. Once you dye your hair for the first time, you see other people with dyed hair, and you see them differently than you did before. And you're just like 'Yes! Live! Work that color! Yes, I love you in every way! You're killin' it! I want to do that color next!'

Tyler Oakley

#51. I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.

Madonna Ciccone

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

Paulo Coelho

#53. Something clicks in my brain. My heart instantly plummets to the bottom of my stomach, and I feel my face start to flush with new color.
I pull my head back and look up to meet his unparalleled eyes.
"Adam.

Gretchen Powell

#54. As the funds you will expend have come from many places in the world, so let there be no territorial, religious, or color restrictions on your benefactions, but beware of organized, professional charities with high-salaried executives and a heavy ratio of expense.

Conrad Hilton

#55. The color of somebody's skin or the way he wears his hair or clothes has nothing to do with anything.

Judge Mills Lane

#56. People with an impoverished vocabulary live an impoverished emotional life; people with rich vocabularies have a multihued palette of colors with which to paint their experience, not only for others, but for themselves as well.

Tony Robbins

#57. And the needles of the pine trees, freshly washed to a deep, rich green, shimmered with droplets that blinked like clear crystals.

Billie Letts

#58. If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.

Mary Cassatt

#59. I've never been the one. Not for anybody."
He closed the distance between them.
"You'll get used to it." He tipped her face up to his, kissed her.
"Why? Why am I the one?"
"Because my life opened up, and it flooded with color when you walked back into it.

Nora Roberts

#60. Naomi looks at me, her orange-brown eyes rimmed in dark shadow flecked with silver sparkles. All of that darkness around the pop of color in her irises makes them seem huge, like two sunsets floating in a night sky. I smirk again. There I go getting all poetic; good for me.

C.M. Stunich

#61. It's important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment.

Danny Glover

#62. He it was that first gave to the law the air of a science. He found it a skeleton, and clothed it with life, color, and complexion: he embraced the old statue, and by his touch it grew into youth, health, and beauty.

Barry Yelverton, 1st Viscount Avonmore

#63. I can go completely berserk with the makeup, depending on the event. I'm currently in this very mod stage. I wear false lashes and color on my eyelids. I'm really liking shiny eyelids in copper, rose, gold, or silver.

Sharon Stone

#64. I pointed, still unable to utter a word. Tim looked down at the spectacle behind the shed, his face swiftly draining of color. He gripped my arm with a clammy hand. And then he did something I'd been waiting half my life to see: he dropped into a dead swoon at my feet.

Rosie Genova

#65. I used to experiment all the time with my hair color.

Olivia Wilde

#66. You painted armless beings, swimming in blinding color, and they had to exist like that forever. Could they see you with all those tiny, scattered eyes? Or did they only see the heaven and hell of their own shining realm, anchored to the studs in the wall by a piece of twisted wire?

Anne Rice

#67. A poem is a painting with imagery and words; a painting is a poem of color on a reflecting mirror.

Debasish Mridha

#68. It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he perceives as a color, an emotion or mood is very abstract. A director tells you something he wants and then you have to run back.

Danny Elfman

#69. A matter, as the famous book intoned, of finding the shade of the parachute that best complemented you. But really: With no parachute at all you'd hit the pavement so hard it probably wouldn't even hurt, and you'd unleash a whole new color palate-bone, blood, muscle-in the process.

Elisa Albert

#70. I tend to think having that extreme of color, that kind of black, is amazingly beautiful ... and powerful. What I was thinking to do with my image was to reclaim the image of blackness as an emblem of power.

Kerry James Marshall

#71. I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way ... things I had no words for.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#72. You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.

Wm. Paul Young

#73. Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call it white because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember.

Stephen King

#74. She'd let her eyes water so the view was blurry, which gave certain qualities of the world neglected by clear eyesight the chance to come forth, such as the shocking beauty of color, and she remembered this with compassion for that silly young self, which had deserved to have her hand held.

Elizabeth Mckenzie

#75. Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and doom from lips spotted with decay

William S. Burroughs

#76. The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#77. Usually I'm very, very involved with choosing my character's wardrobe and knowing exactly how I want the character to look and this is the color palette and the textures and these are the kinds of shoes she'd wear.

Kathleen Robertson

#78. I think for folks of color the key to combatting racism period is a) trusting their instincts and b) solidarity with one another.

Tim Wise

#79. I was involved with the Nation of Islam. I wasn't doing no marching. I've been involved with the Nation for 50 years. Back in those days, they tried to label us as black Muslims. There are Muslims all over the world. It doesn't have to be black; it doesn't matter what color he is.

The Mighty Hannibal

#80. Be motivated like the falcon,
hunt gloriously.
Be magnificent as the leopard,
fight to win.
Spend less time with
nightingales and peacocks.
One is all talk,
the other only color.

Rumi

#81. With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.

John Henry Newman

#82. I nearly bit one of them, and yadda yadda yadda, we learned they had nothing to do with the color change." "You can't yadda yadda yadda nearly biting a fairy," Paige said.

Chloe Neill

#83. The trouble with wars is that they all look alike to people who aren't involved. Only the skin color of the dead is different.

Jonathan Carroll

#84. We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is no art. Cosmopolitanism - a world in which things lose their color and form, and words lose their significance. We love in our past all that we consider native, wonderful and fair.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#85. But the nice man had cold eyes. When interacting with his fascinated lady-harem, they had been blue. But when he turned his attention to me - however briefly - I could have sworn that they turned gray, the color of water beneath a sky from which snow will soon fall.

Stephen King

#86. I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.

Eartha Kitt

#87. I'm not the color of my skin. I'm a story. One with a past and a future unwritten.

Heidi W. Durrow

#88. You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.

Cyndi Lauper

#89. One thought spectra are marvellous, but it is not possible to make progress there. Just as if you have the wing of a butterfly then certainly it is very regular with the colors and so on, but nobody thought one could get the basis of biology from the coloring of the wing of a butterfly.

Niels Bohr

#90. Honey lamb, there are a lot of things in this world I feel insecure about. Religion. Our national economic policies. What color socks to wear with a blue suit. But I've got to tell you that my performance in that hotel room last night isn't one of them.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#91. The beer had the color and taste of baby's pee, but we followed our usual routine and drank with joyless discipline until we both passed out.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#92. For proper family portraits it's best to stick with classic, timeless looks that will not only be beautiful now but also in 20 years, and keep the wardrobe color palette similar so it looks like the group shot was well planned.

George Kotsiopoulos

#93. It's all a rather dark shade of gray. But that's a color all of us are familiar with, aren't we?

Shannon Messenger

#94. Midnight blue is the only color that can ever compete with black.

Christian Dior

#95. Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.

Erica Jong

#96. As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.

Omari Hardwick

#97. It was so much fun working with Rimmel. We're inspired by many of the same things: fashion, color, sounds, style, life in general, and London in particular.

Rita Ora

#98. Forever is a question you start asking when you look at the ceiling. It becomes a word you hear in the same way that people who associate sound with color might hear a flat sky-blue. The open sky through which forgotten satellites travel. Forever.

John Darnielle

#99. The front door is painted a rich, bright red. The corners of my mouth curl into a smile. Have I mentioned my love affair with red? It's a beautiful, trusting relationship. Nothing coated in such a wondrous color could ever be bad.

Victoria Scott

#100. I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land
every color, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike
all snored in the same language.

Malcolm X