quotations about color
People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and its ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spat blues. Murky darknesses. In my line of work, I make it a point to notice them.
MARKUS ZUSAK
The Book Thief
Color me, a dangerous magenta
We live in a gray world, a world without sun anymore
Color me, with shades full of passion
Let's wake up our senses before we go blind in the dark
MICK RONSON
"Colour Me"
When a language advances and adds a third term to its lexicon for color, the third term is always red.
DANIEL J. LEVITIN
The Organized Mind
Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.
JACK KEROUAC
On the Road
Color is one of the most marvelous aspects of our existence. Even if one possesses a basic scientific understanding of the phenomenon of color perception--rooted in the absorption and reflection of impartial light waves as they meet objects and environments in the real world, striking the human retina by chance, subsequently setting off a chain of neural excitation--the experience of color loses none of its visceral nature, its emotional power, its potential for fascination.
SADAO HIBI
The Colors of Japan
The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Animal Faith and Spiritual Life
Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs.
LEIGH HUNT
The Seer: Or, Common-places Refreshed
Blind men shouldna judge o' colors.
SCOTTISH PROVERB
Color is a highly subjective and powerful means of communicating ideas.
PAUL MARTIN LESTER
Visual Communication: Images with Messages
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
PABLO PICASSO
"Conversations avec Picasso", Cahiers d'Art, 1935
Who am I
To say you didn't love me?
When I can't remember
The color of your eyes
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD
"The Colour of Your Eyes"
To ask what a color is like qua color, however, is to reduce, say, red to a distressing and uninformative tautology where it is what it is: red is red is red.
EDWARD BRANIGAN
Tracking Color in Cinema and Art
I like to use color to push the eye around. Color can be like highway signs, telling people where to look and how to look.
BILL PLYMPTON
Making 'Toons That Sell Without Selling Out
Color is like form, a thing apart and yet present in the making of any "thing" we might perceive. So color and "form," whatever that is, are catalysts or agents that enter into any given mass when it is forming itself into things.
PAUL CHRISTENSEN
West of the American Dream
But I see your true colors
Shining through
I see your true colors
And that's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
True colors are beautiful
Like a rainbow
CYNDI LAUPER
"True Colors"
Color is like dynamite: It must be handled carefully. If used thoughtfully, color will clarify and reveal your designs' forms and internal meanings. If used carelessly, it will undermine and collapse the design composition by diverting the visitor's eye and fracture the underlying harmony of form and pattern.
ANN LATHAM CUDWORTH
Virtual World Design
He that cannot paint must grind the colors.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
Gold-Foil
Color is like a very fast car: it can be very dangerous if not handled properly. Artists should have a license to use color. Young artists should start with the easy colors--earth tones and pastels. Then, once they feel comfortable, they can move up to higher speeds with brighter, faster colors.
BILL PLYMPTON
Making 'Toons That Sell Without Selling Out
The world is a carousel of color.
ANONYMOUS
Color me and let it wash over
I just want to drown in it all, I want to be swept far away
Color me and make me feel stronger
Something exotic and new, something that won't fade too soon
MICK RONSON
"Colour Me"