Quotes about color
color shapes musician
The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape. Haruki Murakami
color effectiveness individuality
All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
color years errors
Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?
color himself lord
The Lord Himself dyes us in the color of His Love.
color introduce tone
The look of the movie has a kind a muted tone to it at first, and then we introduce color to it as we go along. Debbie Allen
color trying wish
I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise. James McBride
color silence human-nature
A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels. Emily Dickinson
color drawing done
All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation. Ellsworth Kelly
color space curves
I have worked to free shape from its ground, and then to work the shape so that it has a definite relationship to the space around it; so that it has a clarity and a measure within itself of its parts (angles, curves, edges and mass); and so that, with color and tonality, the shape finds its own space and always demands its freedom and separateness.
color understanding important
For me, being able to work with somebody who I don't have to translate my experience to all the time - that's important, because I'm not having to walk someone down the path of racial understanding to tell a story about a woman of color. Ellen Pompeo
color ford
An American can have a Ford in any color so long as its black. Henry Ford
color relevant ifs
If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant. Edward Tufte
color sea waves-breaking
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
color irrelevant
Seek for the boldest color possible, content is irrelevant. Henri Matisse
color trying complementary-colors
I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation
color splitting-up tranquility
The splitting up of color [as Impressionists did] brought the splitting up of form and contour . . . Everything is reduced to a mere sensation of the retina, but one which destroys all tranquility of surface and contour. Objects are differentiated only by the luminosity that is given them.
color musical way
I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture. From the relationship I have found in all the tones there must result a living harmony of colors, a harmony analogous to that of a musical composition.
color drawing spirit
Drawing is of the spirit; color is of the senses.
color rainbow choices
The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.
color expression function
The main function of color should be to serve expression.
color choices feelings
My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.
color drawing world
If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.
color tone timbre
A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres.
color possessing
Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
color red
A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
color hands moments
From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.
color feelings looks
Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.
color four made
My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another…
color borders void
Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void
color long black
You can have any color you want, as long as it's black
color cities office
When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys do not seek to avenge their deaths. Black, Hispanic, or poor families who have a loved one murdered not only don't expect the district attorney's office to pursue the death penalty -which, of course, is both costly and time consuming- but are surprised when the case is prosecuted at all. Helen Prejean
color typewriters four
My Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors. Heather O'Rourke
color safety enemy
The colors that float from the masthead should be the credentials of our seamen. There is no safety to us, and the gentlemen have shown it, but in the rule that all who sail under the flag (not being enemies) are protected by the flag. Henry Clay