Quotes About The Color Violet

#1. With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the art world since Velazquez.

Joaquin Sorolla

#2. During my early skating years, there were not many ice rinks in Korea, and even the few rinks that existed, most of them were public.

Kim Yuna

#3. Even with her failing vision, Violet West could see the scars. They had turned purple, almost red, from the icy cold, the color of the pears on the tree in the yard, the color of blood that can't be washed away and of things that can never be undone.

Alice Hoffman

#4. We will say, then, that I am mad. I grant, at least, that there are two distinct conditions of my mental existence - the condition of a lucid reason, not to be disputed, and belonging to the memory of events forming the first epoch of my life - and

Edgar Allan Poe

#5. Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.

Fran Lebowitz

#6. My wife is a lovely leathery green, the blue-tongued lizard said;
Her eyes are as red as bulldog ants, lurking in holes in her head;
Her body is made of the speckled grass, a violet grows on her tongue,
And I could watch her for fifty years if nobody blundered along.

Douglas Stewart

#7. Sons of Ares ARES Terrorist Leader, color unknown DANCER Ares' lieutenant, a Red HARMONY Dancer's lieutenant, a Red MICKEY Carver, a Violet EVEY former slave of Mickey, a Pink

Pierce Brown

#8. I made a decision when I started writing 'All is Song' to take the compliments I had for 'The Wilderness' and try to be confident and not overwhelmed by it.

Samantha Harvey

#9. For no one really knows what color is, where it is, even whether it is. (Can it die? Does it have a heart?) Think of a honeybee, for instance, flying into the folds of a poppy: it sees a gaping violet mouth, where we see an orange flower and assume that it's orange, that we're normal. 39.

Maggie Nelson

#10. But it's hard to feel bad for her, because as much as she's hurting, she doesn't know pain. She doesn't know it like I know it. I keep it alive. I keep it in business. I keep it thriving with as much as I experience it

Colleen Hoover

#11. The most powerful people on earth are focus groups.

William J. Clinton

#12. Maybe Violet was stricken with colorblindness, the willful inability to distinguish between white and any other color, the only infirmity Americans wished for themselves. But

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#13. The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

Warren Buffett

#14. Violet is the most soothing, tranquilizing and cooling color vibration. It encourages the healing of unbalanced mental conditions in people who are overly nervous or high-strung. Foods of the violet vibration are: purple broccoli, beetroot and purple grapes.

Tae Yun Kim

#15. The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.

Vincent Van Gogh

#16. 15And he died for all, so that those who live might live no longer for themselves, but for him who died and was raised for them.

Anonymous

#17. We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing ... a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.

Plotinus

#18. It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#19. Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

Matt Groening

#20. Oh, I love red. I'm very loyal to my colors. I love violet.

Elizabeth Taylor

#21. My favorite color is violet. The scent of roses makes me feel at home, wherever I am. I do not enjoy fish, but I will eat it to make a loved one happy, suffering through my smile.

Renee Ahdieh