Quotes about Color

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.

Everywhere the woman went she drew her little rainbow of happiness along with her.

I often marveled that the interior peace of the woman was reflected so faithfully in her surroundings. Even the selection and arrangements of her possessions gave an aura of uncluttered calm. In addition, there was a directness in her approach to all of life--including housekeeping--that never failed to fascinate me. Miss Alice was a person to whom color, symmetry of line and contrast of texture were important.

Excerpt from Leaving Things Alone) You train your eye and your vision lusts after colour. You train your ear, and you long for delightful sound. You delight in doing good, and your natural kindness is blown out of shape. You delight in righteousness, and you become righteous beyond all reason.

He has dark skin," she said to Rux, jumping right to her point, "because God is an astounding artist, and like you, he loves to paint with many different colors.

With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.