Color Quotes

Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights.

~ Carson Kressley

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

~ Dave Barry

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

~ George Aiken

It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one's own hand - that is what is necessary.

~ Maria Montessori

The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'

~ Bill Maher

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

~ Antoni Gaudí

I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture - and the people themselves.

~ Anika Noni Rose

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

~ Lee Radziwill

The more colorful the food, the better. I try to add color to my diet, which means vegetables and fruits.

~ Misty May-Treanor

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

~ Chinua Achebe

I only like food without color, like potatoes, bread, and pasta.

~ Emma Roberts

God does not discriminate against people, regardless of color, religion, social class, or gender and sexual preferences.

~ Rodrigo Duterte

Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And so it's up to you to take control of your own life and define you. As long as you understand who you are and you have a solid foundation of understanding what your talents are, what your skills are.

~ Stedman Graham

No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.

~ Hanya Yanagihara

It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

~ Yehuda Berg

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

~ Taylor Swift

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

~ Audre Lorde

I personally think my sister is so stunning without makeup. And she doesn't wear that much makeup because she has the best skin color.

~ Gigi Hadid

Jesus was not born in a manger in central Pennsylvania. He was a man of color. And the fact that we have represented him for centuries literally as a white man speaks to the entire history of white supremacy.

~ Tim Wise

It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.

~ Audre Lorde

I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was black. I knew there was a history that accompanied my skin color, and my parents taught me to be proud of it. End of story.

~ Issa Rae

Don't contour with blush - that's so eighties. It was an amazing trend then, but it's not hot now. Instead, go for a neutral contour color that's one or two shades deeper than your skin tone.

~ Tyra Banks

Color is a power which directly influences the soul.

~ Wassily Kandinsky

Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.

~ Hakeem Olajuwon

You can't get along without a knowledge of the principles and rules governing the influence of one color upon another. A mechanic might as well try to get along without tools.

~ Winslow Homer

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

~ Hans Hofmann

Color is an intense experience on its own.

~ Jim Hodges

I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude.

~ Kurt Sutter

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.

~ Jesse Jackson

If you look at your companies, and half of your staff are not female, and a decent percentage of them are not people of color, then you are part of the problem because you need people working for you and you need people in positions of leadership who can exercise their bias and who can exercise their perspective.

~ David Oyelowo

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.

~ Nicolas Cage

In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.

~ Dennis Quaid

The color of truth is gray.

~ André Gide

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

~ Daniel J. Boorstin

Gray is great. People think gray is a neutral, but I think it's such a moody, intense, dramatic and sexy color. It's very sleek.

~ Bryan Batt

As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.

~ Omari Hardwick

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

~ James Russell Lowell

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

~ Pierre Bonnard

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

~ Henri Matisse

My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

~ Douglas Trumbull