Quotes on Colors

Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

Author: Josef Albers

I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice.

Author: Pedro Almodovar

You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.

Author: Daisy Ashford

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

Author: Honore Balzac

The colors I use may clash or vibrate against one another but this is done intentionally.

Author: Frank Bruno

Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.

Author: Claude Chabrol

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

Author: Marc Chagall

I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night.

Author: Rosemary Clooney

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.

Author: Chuck Close

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

Author: Thomas Couture

What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.

Author: Morris Dees

In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.

Author: Robert Delaunay

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

Author: Robert Delaunay

And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.

Author: Black Elk

We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.

Author: Carlisle Floyd

I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

Author: Nathan Forrest

It's ok to show all your colors.

Author: Luis Guzman

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

Author: Conrad Hall

The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'

Author: John Hench

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. I had great satisfaction in doing that.

Author: John Hench

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colors that are but skin-deep.

Author: Matthew Henry

Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

Author: Hans Hofmann

It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion.

Author: Donna Karan

Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

Author: Joe Klein

I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires.

Author: William Knowles

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

Author: Charles Lamb

I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.

Author: Roy Lichtenstein

Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.

Author: Donna Mills

My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.

Author: Joan Miro

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

Author: Maria Mitchell

Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

Author: Edvard Munch

My Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors.

Author: Heather O'Rourke

Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please. I had always wanted to do so, yet was never allowed because of the color capabilities of our lithographers. Now that I have done it, I don't think I'll ever go back.

Author: Maxfield Parrish

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.

Author: Pablo Picasso

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Author: Pablo Picasso

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

Author: Jim Rohn

They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.

Author: John Selden

The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.

Author: Gene Simmons

Michael would take us on location and see how the colors worked in the forests and fields.

Author: Madeleine Stowe

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

Author: Voltaire

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

Author: Jessamyn West

There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules.

Author: Douglas Wilson