Color quotes

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◆ Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

- Rabindranath Tagore100

◆ I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.

- Janet Fitch99

◆ 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.

- Pablo Picasso99

◆ The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.

- Alice Hoffman99

◆ White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

- G.K. Chesterton99

◆ The phrase and the day and the scene harmonized in a chord. Words. Was it their colours? He allowed them to glow and fade, hue after hue: sunrise gold, the russet and green of apple orchards, azure of waves, the greyfringed fleece of clouds. No it was not their colours: it was the poise and balance of the period itself. Did he then love the rhythmic rise and fall of words better than their associations of legend and colour? Or was it that, being as weak of sight as he was shy of mind, he drew less pleasure from the reflection of the glowing sensible world through the prism of a language manycoloured and richly storied than from the contemplation of an inner world of individual emotions mirrored perfectly in a lucid supple periodic prose?

- James Joyce99

◆ They sang the words in unison, yet somehow created a web of sounds with their voices. It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven with all the colors of a rainbow. I did not know that such beauty could be formed by the human mouth. I had never heard harmony before.

- Anita Diamant99

◆ I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

- Michael Bassey Johnson99

◆ Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones and purple bursts of spiny sea urchins.

- Janet Fitch99

◆ The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.

- Orhan Pamuk99

◆ The best color in the whole world, is the one that looks good, on you!

- Coco Chanel99

◆ If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

- G.K. Chesterton99

◆ I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

- Mark Rothko99

◆ Each day has a color, a smell.

- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni99

◆ Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

- Vera Nazarian99