Quotes about color
color enthusiasm
What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life. Vincent Van Gogh
color lines equator
You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.
color comforting speak
One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.
color may tone
When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like the model.
color painting bones
I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.
color painter
The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.
color together stories
We need more filmmakers of color telling the story. I'd like to see more filmmakers take their products out independently, put together a good commercial film and distribute it online. Will Packer
color flying
I will go down with my colors flying. Virginia Woolf
color ordinary landscape
I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same - lighting, color, structure, and so on - certainly traditional and ordinary problems. Wayne Thiebaud
color hue noise
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
color statements
I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement. Samuel Larsen
color rainbow saws
She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love. Salman Rushdie
color white people
I have a pretty good sense of when to express misgivings. And white critics are just as capable of pointing those things out and noticing them as people of color. Wesley Morris
color wind weather
Typhoons are a sort of violent whirlwinds. Before these whirlwinds come on... there appears a heavy cloud to the northeast which is very black near the horizon, but toward the upper part is a dull reddish color. The tempest came with great violence, but after a while, the winds ceased all at once and a calm succeeded. This lasted... an hour, more or less, then the gales were turned around, blowing with great fury from the southwest. William Dampier
color skins slavery
He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color'd like his own, and having pow'r T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. William Cowper
color cities good-food
The colors. The city. Nothing. But they’ve got some good food, though. Other than the food, nothing. Roddy White
color water mind
A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind. Robert Louis Stevenson
color gardening use
But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung ... Vita Sackville-West
color answers my-own
Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is what experience is for.... Robin McKinley
color world painting
I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting Willem de Kooning
color purple acting
Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good. Whoopi Goldberg
color essence scary
It's almost scary how stylish things can look if you take the color out - how much more you see the essence of things and how much more something can appear elegant. Wim Wenders
color racism lines
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. W. E. B. Du Bois
color want red
I know my face is turning red. I don't want you to interpret it as being embarrassed. It's rage. The color of my face is rage. Zach Galifianakis
color substance form
Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form. Yves Klein
color blue suitable
Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life. William H. Gass
color yellow relief
The word itself has another color. It’s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only the bump now between b and l, the relief at the end, the whew. It hasn’t the sly turn which crimson takes halfway through, yellow’s deceptive jelly, or the rolled-down sound in brown. It hasn’t violet’s rapid sexual shudder or like a rough road the irregularity of ultramarine, the low puddle in mauve like a pancake covered in cream, the disapproving purse to pink, the assertive brevity of red, the whine of green.
color sides masters
In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form. Wassily Kandinsky
color silence black
Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.
color soul body
Whether the psychological effect of color is direct...or whether it is the outcome of association, is open to question. The soul being one with the body, it may well be possible that a psychological tremor generates corresponding one through association.
color oil feelings
When I was thirteen or fourteen I bought a paintbox with oil paints from money slowly saved up. The feeling I had at the time - or better - the experience of color coming slowly out of the tube - is with me to this day.
color soul influence
Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.
color yellow giving
A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so yellow has shades, which can be expressed by various instruments.