Color Quotes - Page 7

• Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Opportunity, Men, Race

  Civil Rights Symposium Address, delivered 12 December 1972. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, TX

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• Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red, white, and blue all over.

  John F. Carlson

  Powerful, Mean, Blue

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• A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Rights, Names, Age

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not.

  Ann Demeulemeester

  Fashion, Depressing, Yellow

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• I like bright colors.

  Bubba Watson

  Bright Colors

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm a storyteller, I'm not a literary writer, and I don't want to be a literary writer. People say to me, "Oh, when are you going to write something different?" What? I don't want to write anything different. I'm writing relationships between people, all different colors, all different sizes, all different sexual orientations, and that's what I want to do.

  Jackie Collins

  Writing, People, Different

  "Writer Jackie Collins". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 17, 2014.

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• I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Good Night, Art

  Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

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• You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Believe, Isms

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• I kind of view everybody like a rainbow. Everybody on the planet has all the colors of the rainbow inside.

  Alexia Fast

  Views, Rainbow, Kind

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• Color is very much about atmosphere and emotion and the feel of a place.

  Alex Webb

  Atmosphere, Emotion, Feels

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• Passion colors all that it touches in its own hues.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Passion, Hue

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• There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Yellow, Orange, Blue

  1888 Letter to Emile Bernard, Jun.

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• I think suspense should be like any other color on a writers palette. I suppose Im in the minority but I think its crazy for literary fiction to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto.

  Jess Walter

  Crazy, Ghetto, Divorce

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• If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.

  Robert Fulghum

  New Year, Party, Air

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• Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find his highest enjoyment to arise from the continued practice of doing all in his power to promote the well-being, and happiness, of every man, woman, and child, without regard to their class, sect, party, country or colour

  Robert Owen

  Happiness, Country, Children

  Robert Owen (1841). “A development of the principles and plans on which to establish self-supporting home colonies: as a most secure and profitable investment for capital, and an effectual means permanently to remove the causes of ignorance, poverty, and crime”, p.7

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• Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not....All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

  Yves Klein

  Art, Blue, Sea

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• Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic ideas and beliefs seem more satisfactory when they are not made fully explicit, when they merely lurk rather obscurely in the background, coloring the rhetoric and adding a certain emotive glow.

  James Burnham

  Emotional, Glowing, Ideas

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• Color is life; for a world without color appears to us as dead. Colors are primordial ideas, the children of light.

  Johannes Itten

  Children, Light, Ideas

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• Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.

  Yves Klein

  Matter, States, Form

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• I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting

  Willem de Kooning

  World, Painting

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• Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Literature, Painting, Language

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1996). “This Earth of Mankind”, Penguin Books

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• Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.

  Paulo Coelho

  Rainbow, Feelings, Bounds

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• I've always been fascinated by music and sounds. I was lucky to receive proper classical training as an orchestra player and I'm always learning as a composer, looking to create new flavors and colors.

  Lior Ron

  Player, Training, Sound

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• Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Facts, Theory

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

  Oprah Winfrey

  Canvas, Life Is, Paint

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