Color Quotes

• Establishing mood through pictorial means is the director Ridley Scott's most notable talent. There may be no working director more accomplished at wringing texture out of the color blue than the prodigious and now prolific Mr. Scott; you'd swear that with his dazzling washes of blues and sand tones, he was inventing additional hues on the spot.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • May
  • Blue
  • Mood

• When I'm preparing for a swim, I imagine absolutely everything about it: the color of the water, how cold it is, the taste of salt in my mouth. I visualize each and every stroke.

  

  Lewis Gordon Pugh
  • Water
  • Color
  • Cold

• The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

  

  Jeremiah Wright
  • People
  • Color

• There's a burden of responsibility for me to show up correct - in my head, if I don't do it right, then I'll get shut out, and then other trans women of color will be shut out.

  

  Janet Mock
  • Up
  • Women
  • Responsibility

• Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone else, other than the exterior.

  

  Marla Gibbs
  • People
  • Different
  • Black

• 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. To the extent that the proclamation of emancipation is not fulfilled in fact, to that extent we shall have fallen short of assuring freedom to the free.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Men
  • Free
  • Freedom

• I used to be homophobic, but as I got older, I realized that wasn't the way to do things. I don't discriminate against anybody for their sexual preference, for their skin color... that's immature.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Things
  • Homophobic
  • Sexual Preference

• I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.

  

  Chuck Close
  • Color

• I'm kind of a neat freak. My place is really organized. My socks are even organized: colors and sizes.

  

  Ryan Guzman
  • Kind
  • Size
  • Freak

• Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

  

  Arthur George Gaston
  • People
  • Money
  • Black

• The justice system isn't meant to work for people of color in this country.

  

  Yance Ford
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • Character
  • Song
  • Food

• The mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Business
  • Mark
  • Unfinished

• Hawaii's own Patsy Mink served as the first congresswoman of color and first Asian American woman in the House; she later sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

  

  Colleen Hanabusa
  • She
  • American
  • House

• I look at graphic design as communication, meaning that the work has to have a vibe to connect to the viewer or perceiver. I make a black and white drawing and then add color digitally, bringing in a contemporary pattern to the composition to create a vibrance.

  

  John Van Hamersveld
  • Work
  • Black
  • Design

• I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.

  

  Andrew Wyeth
  • True
  • Nature
  • Study

• There's a feeling among white Americans that there's no such thing as racial harmony, no such thing as a positive, productive relationship with people of color.

  

  Jess Row
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Relationship

• I love color and I love to dress like a woman.

  

  Lisa Guerrero
  • Color

• There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Work
  • Small
  • Alone

• I think that there should be this thing for cover-ups on tattoos. I want to develop it. It's like a skin-toned transfer, and then all the make-up artist has to do is airbrush over it to blend it into the skin. There's nothing like that. At the moment, you literally have to go red and get it to skin color, which takes forever.

  

  Jamie Campbell Bower
  • Up
  • Forever
  • Red

• Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • World
  • Together
  • Vision

• Yes, I'm a proud Latina woman, but before that - before the color of my skin, my accent, anything - I'm an actress, singer and dancer. I'm something bigger than just my background.

  

  Bianca Marroquin
  • Proud
  • Color

• The reason I get so excited about 'Master of None' is because it's showing people of color as regular people.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • People
  • Color

• If in looking at a picture you have been profoundly moved by it, but have not noticed the color or drawing, you may be sure that they are technically perfect.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • May
  • Perfect
  • Picture

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