Quotes with colors

  • I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.
  • We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
  • 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!
  • Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.
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  • Bill Watterson A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Wyndham Lewis 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
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Henry David Thoreau A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Scott Glenn Acting in movies is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left.
    Scott Glenn
    American actor (1941 - )
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  • Albert Hofmann After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn.
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  • Marc Chagall All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
    Marc Chagall
    Russian-French artist and painter (1887 - 1985)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Bibhu Mohapatra Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.
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  • John Sterling Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
    John Sterling
    Scottish author (1938 - )
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  • Leigh Hunt Colors are the smiles of nature.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Caroline Knapp Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Olympia Brown He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
    Olympia Brown
    American minister and suffragist (1835 - 1926)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Winston Churchill I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Douglas Macarthur I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Bryan Batt I think in your home, you should only use colors that you look good in. It's a little self-serving but think if it as you're on a stage. Not with any pressure, but you want to showcase yourself.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • A. S. Byatt I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.
    A. S. Byatt
    English novelist and poet (1936 - )
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  • Bryan Batt I'm in love with red. I think it's such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. It's power, there's no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you don't. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. They're all magic.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
    Pierre-Auguste Renoir
    French painter (1841 - 1919)
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  • Sam Levenson It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.
    Sam Levenson
    American author (1911 - 1980)
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