Color Quotes
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Nature, too, shall live its own life. We must beware not to disrupt it with the color of our houses and interior fittings. yet we should not attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together into a higher unity.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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When I was a child, I spent all my spare time looking at birds and insects (beetles). My color use, and the object quality of the 'painting', and the use of fragmentation is closer to birds and beetles and fish, than it is to De Stijl or the Constructivists.
Ellsworth Kelly
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My responsibility is, I'm always trying to look for new people of color or even artistic people who need a chance.
Antoine Fuqua
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I've always liked to go down a different path. Being a woman of color, I never followed a cookie cutter way.
Halle Berry
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
Florence Nightingale
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'Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened.
David Bromstad
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Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.
William H. Gass
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I think it doesn't matter, the color of your skin; it doesn't matter where you are from. It matters how you relate to people, how you connect with people, and the open-mindedness with which you approach the subject. That's to me what matters when you are making a film, not who you are or where you are from.
Matthew Heineman
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The reason that I call my doctrine logical atomism is because the atoms that I wish to arrive at as the sort of last residue in analysis are logical atoms and not physical atoms. Some of them will be what I call 'particulars' – such things as little patches of color or sounds, momentary things – and some of them will be predicates or relations and so on.
Bertrand Russell
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Matisse was my God. I'm a French artist, that's for sure. I am color-oriented and what you might call a composer. I am not pouring my guts out; I keep them inside.
Francoise Gilot
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I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.
Jan Karon
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Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.
John Hench
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So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
Henry Louis Gates
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I think if you're president, color goes away completely: you're president and it doesn't matter if you're white, green or purple.
Kathryn Stockett
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White was the most fashionable color among the nobility and the rich. Because, of course, white is so easily dirtied, and only the wealthy would do little enough that it could not be spoiled.
Tanith Lee
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I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets better and richer.
Ellsworth Kelly
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on Arnold Schwarzenegger That motherfucker be ORANGE. ...I am not against people of color, but that is a fucked-up color. I think that him and Donatella Versace, they gonna start a whole new race of Oompa-Loompa.
Margaret Cho
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I love my hair. But I don't even remember my original color because I started bleaching it so young. I was, like, 11.
Nicki Minaj
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I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.
Jim Hodges
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The funny thing is, when I ask people with dark skin if they would change their color, they tell me no, and when I ask women if they would rather be men, they tell me no, and I get the same response when I ask people with unusual anatomies if they would take a magic pill to erase their unusual features.
Alice Dreger
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Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors, producers etc. It's a very difficult business. There aren't a lot of Africans Americans or people of color in high positions in Hollywood that we can green-light films.
Paula Patton
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It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.
Genevieve Gorder
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I have a lot of Burberry items at home, including one dress that I loved so much that I had my living room painted to match because the color was so flattering.
Dita Von Teese
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Let's teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.
Dolores Huerta