Color Quotes

• Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.

  

  Andres Serrano
  • Political
  • Color

• The easiest approach to any strong color is to use a lot of it, thus unifying a room. However, beware of too many strong colors unless you happen to like living on a battlefield.

  

  Van Day Truex
  • Strong
  • Color

• 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

• Feminists cried, 'Sexism!' when New York Senator Hillary Clinton was judged not by the content of her character but by the color of her pantsuits.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Character
  • Color

• At the heart of Christian ethic is humility; at the heart of its parodies, pride. Different roads with different destinations, and the destinations color the character of those who travel by them.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Different
  • Heart
  • Character

• I feel as a woman of color, I just don't want my art to be owned by a white man.

  

  Noname
  • Man
  • Color
  • Owned

• The problems faced by writers of color are analogous to the problems face by women writers.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Women
  • Color

• European style is classic, with its own color, and to me, it always feels chic.

  

  G-Dragon
  • Style
  • Color

• Waste not your time on broad sketches in color.

  

  Asher Brown Durand
  • Time
  • Color
  • Sketches

• Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?

  

  Hal Borland
  • Time
  • World
  • Fall

• I play with those two eras a lot. The '70s did actually take quite a lot inspiration from the '30s. I love the '70s, the bold color. There's something very sophisticated about it now, looking back.

  

  Jenny Packham
  • Color
  • Inspiration
  • Bold

• There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

  

  John Calvin
  • World
  • Color

• I'll see something or hear something. Sometimes, it can be a color. Or a piece of music. Or an image of some kind. I see something, and it has huge emotional weight, although I have no idea why.

  

  Martha Grimes
  • Music
  • Why
  • Emotional

• 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'd like them to see that those things that set us apart or make us different can be wonderful contributions to the world around us. I'd like them to see that size and color are irrelevant to the dreams we envision for ourselves. And I'd also love for them to see that life is a journey, and every step of the way, we can learn something and become stronger and wiser.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• Being able to live without having to be defined by your skin color is the hallmark of privilege.

  

  Luvvie Ajayi
  • Live
  • Color

• One of my favorite colors is no color at all.

  

  Billy Baldwin
  • Color

• My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be ruthlessly selective.

  

  Burton Silverman
  • Training
  • Painting
  • Taught

• then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Girl
  • Waiting
  • Moon

• Drawing is but a means to an end. One imagines that drawing can be beautiful-it is not the lines which are beautiful, but what they signify, the sentiments which they translate. In reality, there is no such thing as beauty in drawing, or color beauty lies alone in revelation of truth.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Truth
  • Beautiful
  • Reality

• The presidents and the founding fathers and all of the people we sort of raise up as false idols, we don't wrestle with the fact that many of these were brilliant men, but they were also men with deep prejudices against people of color, against indigenous people, against women.

  

  Clint Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• The color of truth is gray.

  

  Andre Gide
  • Truth
  • Color

• I want to offer plus-size women the opportunity to wear fun colors and to avoid the pitfalls of only wearing black because many curvy girls think it is the only color that is slimming.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Black

• As people of color, it took a whole generation in many ways to get us out of the kitchen, and it's gonna take us the same whole generation to get us back into the kitchen and have ownership of restaurants, hotels and stuff like that.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • People
  • Color
  • Kitchen

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