Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leontyne Price

I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to.

Leonardo da Vinci

The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.

Leonardo da Vinci

Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.

Leonardo da Vinci

Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and so on.

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.

Paul Gauguin

Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and color (in other words, style) must be in harmony with the poem?

Paul Gauguin

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

Parker Stevenson

California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there

Leatrice Eiseman

Glacier Gray is an unobtrusive gray that contrasts and enhances; bouncing off other shades without taking away from them as it slips into the background to allow other colors to take center stage. Nature’s most perfect neutral, Glacier Gray is a shade that is timeless. Quietly assuring and peacefully relaxing, Glacier Gray, is above all, constant.

Leatrice Eiseman

I've never met a color I couldn't love.

Leigh Hunt

Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs.

Lauren Weisberger

I've always expressed my thoughts in color but we remain blind.

Lauren Oliver

Not gray, exactly. Right before the sun rises there's a moment when the whole sky goes this pale nothing color-not really gray but sort of, or sort of white, and I've always really liked it because it reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.

Larry Poons

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.

Lilly Pulitzer

Seeing Michelle Obama's bright color choices, and how she made people smile and reinforced Obama's platforms of hope and change, was inspiring.

Lilly Pulitzer

I am a believer that color affects people's moods.

P. J. O'Rourke

I have, of all the inglorious things, a malignant hemorrhoid. What color bracelet does one wear for that? And where does one wear it? And what slogan is apropos? Perhaps that slogan can be sewn in needlepoint around the ruffle on a cover for my embarrassing little doughnut buttocks pillow.

Pablo Picasso

I want to know one thing, what is color?

Pablo Picasso

I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.

Pablo Picasso

There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?

Pablo Picasso

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?

Pablo Picasso

If you don't know what color to take, take black.....

Pablo Picasso

When I haven't any blue I use red.

Paul Stanley

The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color.

Paul Hindemith

Music, as long as it exists, will always take its departure from the major triad and return to it. The musician cannot escape it any more than the painter his primary colors or the architect his three dimensions.

Paul Cezanne

When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.

Paul Cezanne

Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.

Ken Follett

To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color.

Kazimir Malevich

I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white; beside me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity.

Kathy Griffin

I'm a female in comedy, so of course I want there to be more women on 'SNL', and women of color.

Oprah Winfrey

Life is a big ol' canvas. And you have every combination of colors to paint with.

Olivia Wilde

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

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!