Color Quotes

“Before the blue of night meets the pink of sunrise, there is a transition of lavender. It's a gradient of color that stretches its fade through time, and that gives each moment a unique and exquisite existence.”
― Jarod Kintz, The Lewis and Clark of The Ozarks

“I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.”
― Winston Churchill

“Pleasure is life,...and most of us don't have it, or not much, or mess it up, and when we see it in those blues, those roses, those oranges, that vermilion, we should fall down and worship - for it is the thing itself.”
― AS Byatt

“Color is the soul’s softest whisper,... a tender touch in darkness, yet it reveals itself neither through fragility nor delicacy,... but through a pronounced courage.” ― Jayita Bhattacharjee”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“All I knew was the way that colour spoke to me, as if I'd been waiting my whole life to find it, to set it free." He thought for a moment. "There's always been something about blue. A thousand years ago Yves Klein said it was the essence of colour itself: the colour that stood for all other colours.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Beyond the Aquila Rift

“Dear Duncan, You color with me, but why? Most of the time I’m the same color as the page you are using me on –WHITE. If I didn’t have a black outline, you wouldn’t even know I was THERE! I’m not even used to color SNOW or to fill in empty space between other things. And it leaves me feeling… well… empty. We need to talk. Your empty friend, White Crayon”
― Drew Daywalt, The Day the Crayons Quit

“Duncan, Okay, LISTEN HERE KID! You have not used me ONCE in the past year. It’s because you think I’m a girls’ color, isn’t it? Speaking of which please tell your little sister I said thank you for using me to color in her ‘Little Princess’ coloring book. I think she did a fabulous job of staying in the lines! Now, back to us. Could you PLEASE use me sometime to color the occasional PINK DINOSAUR or Monster or cowboy? Goodness knows they could use a splash of color. Your unused friend, Pink Crayon”
― Drew Daywalt, The Day the Crayons Quit

“(p.85) "I love a few people and they love me and some of them are white, and isn't love more important than color?"

(p.86) "I certainly had no evidence to give them that would outweigh Elijah's authority or the evidence of their own lives or the reality of the streets outside. Yes, I knew two or three people, white, whom I would trust with my life, and I knew a few others, white, who were struggling as hard as they knew how, and with great effort and sweat and risk, to make the world more human. But how could I say this? One cannot argue with anyone's experience or decision or belief. All my evidence would be thrown out of court as irrelevant to the main body of the case, for I could only cite exceptions.”
― James Baldwin, Letter from a region in my mind

“(p. 85) I love a few people and they love me and some of them are white, and isn't love more important than color?

I certainly had no evidence to give them that would outweigh Elijah's authority or the evidence of their own lives or the reality of the streets outside. Yes, I knew two or three people, white, whom I would trust with my life, and I knew a few others, white, who were struggling as hard as they knew how, and with great effort and sweat and risk, to make the world more human. But how could I say this? One cannot argue with anyone's experience or decision or belief. All my evidence would be thrown out of court as irrelevant to the main body of the case, for I could only cite exceptions”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“We may claim to judge someone by the content of their character rather than by the color of their skin, But our brains as hell note the color, real fast.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“And he said...

...the colors of a rainbow shall show the happiness in a smile.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“When the sky melts into a festival of colors...my deepest longings melt and become poetry...”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“You learned in science class once that all things shine. The color of something has to do with the kind of light it absorbs, and the kind it reflects. Red apples aren’t red, they just reflect the red that you see. And so the sky isn’t blue, and clouds aren’t white, and the color of anything is actually the color it won’t accept, because that’s what it’s giving to you.”
― Ryan La Sala, Beholder

“Learning that colour is a fiction of light is one of the primary shocks of growing up.”
― Tacita Dean

“To be awakened is to find the light digging the dust.....to open doors to that which lay in slumber..
To be awakened is to chase away the fright and welcome the hope....for it is the pathway to the joy of a new beginning...
To be awakened is to take your soul into the light... though the clouds are so thick...for godliness rains through the burst of sky....
To be awakened is to make peace with all that has left and all that remains...
To be awakened is to know loss and yet to be in a festival of colors....”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“Now days people's favorite color is political color.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Art comes with a splash of colors ...as you get torn between depression and elation...agony and ecstasy ...and with the surging and slowing of tides.. there arises the gentle and fierce brush strokes....ultimately creating a mix of emotions on the canvas and there comes the colors on a blank canvas...an art....so virgin, raw and pure...”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“Dear Duncan, You color with me, but why? Most of the time I’m the same
color as the page you are using me on –WHITE. If I didn’t have a black outline, you wouldn’t even know I was THERE! I’m not even used to color SNOW or to fill in empty space between other things. And it leaves me feeling… well… empty. We need to talk. Your empty friend, White Crayon”
― Drew Daywalt, The Day the Crayons Quit

“He is a color escapist because he knows that by avoiding color tactility can and will speak up.”
― Kenya Hara, Designing Design

“El color de las cosas viene dado por qué parte de la luz absorben y qué parte no. La luz, o más bien la radiación visible, está formada por todos los colores. Esto se ve fácilmente en el arcoíris, en el que la luz blanca se dispersa al atravesar las gotas del agua, razón por la cual se ve la descomposición de la luz solar en todos los colores que componen el espectro visible.”
― Deborah García Bello, La química de lo bello: Un relato científico sobre el arte y las bellezas cotidianas

“Each raindrop carries a rainbow within their heart.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“And he said...

...the sky shall be filled with the color of oceans.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“When the sky melts into a festival of colors...my deepest longings melt into a poetry...”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“Our world is an artful illusion—of light, color, and sound. It feels spontaneous when you’re in it, but it isn’t. Beneath it all, or above it all, there’s something both significant and unknowable. A design. A sequence that can be maneuvered within, but never escaped.”
― Ryan La Sala, Beholder

“Storms. How did you describe taste? "It's like color.. you see with your mouth." [Shallan] grimaced.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“All the world's color: and I must hold my pride against the world. Pride is white. History is white. The Christ is white. Honor is white, and birthright. All else . . color.”
― Waldo Frank, Holiday

“The biggest problem of the prophets with society was that their color was the opposite of society, so they tried to destroy them.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“How the sun dies a little at the hour of sunset yet leaves the sky in colors! It's the parting moment, that breaks loose the carefully held emotions.”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“Adjustments to colors and fonts primarily benefit learners with vision impairments, however there is also a great benefit for learners with other cognitive limitations. High contrast between text and background is crucial for learners with low vision or color blindness.”
― Britne Jenke, Making Online Learning Accessible: A Making Work Accessible Handbook

“In every color, there is a pleasant pain.”
― amd7