Color quotations

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◆ I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

- Alice Walker99

◆ Your paintings are staggeringly beautiful. Did I ever tell you that,or was I just too concerned that you weren't going to earn a living? I know the answer...I worried that the paint was so thickly applied that it might snap off and ruin someone's carpet, rather than realizing that you'd made color itself tactile.

- Rosamund Lupton98

◆ Drenched in British purples, I have offered up my tones: pigeon breast, hind belly, balky mule lung, monkey bottom pink, lapis lazuli and malachite, excited nymph thigh, panther pee-pee, high-smelling hen hair, hedgehog in aspic, barrel-maker's brothel, revered rose, monkeybush, turkey-like white, sly violet, page's slipper, immaculate nun spring, unspeakable red, Ensor azure, affected yellow, mummy skull, rock-hard gray, brunt celadon, shop soiled smoke ring.

- James Ensor98

◆ Fall colors are funny. They're so bright and intense and beautiful. It's like nature is trying to fill you up with color, to saturate you so you can stockpile it before winter turns everything muted and dreary.

- Siobhan Vivian98

◆ I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.

- Pierre-Auguste Renoir98

◆ Don't you dare come into my world and tell me what color the ocean is! It's black. Black as midnight. Black and awful!

- Nadia Scrieva98

◆ Whatever you choose for your stationery is your favorite color because it's where you pour your heart out.

- Mary E. Pearson98

◆ Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.

- Roma Tearne98

◆ She turned back to inspect a bank of greens: olive, jade, leaf, kiwi, lime, a silver-green like the back of birch leaves, a bright pistachio.

- Anne Bartlett98

◆ ... los colores no pueden comprenderse, se sienten.

- Orhan Pamuk98

◆ When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.

- Thomas Hardy98

◆ From the floor, I see the tops of the Philadelphia skyline out of her window. Staring at it, I realize that the night sky isn't really black, which is the way I've always thought of it. It's actually a dark shade of blue, the darkest possible.

- Siobhan Vivian98

◆ Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?

- Daniele Varè98

◆ Her heavy peasant face was fringed by a bang of red hair like a woolen table-spread, a color at once strange and attractive, an obstinate color, a color that seemed to make Lena feel something alien and bad-tempered had settled over her forehead...

- Djuna Barnes98

◆ I wanted this day, the perfect buttery sun like peach ice cream, the speed, the satin leather of the car seat, the fair. Forbidden fruit, a day like no other.

- Beth Gutcheon98