Colors Quotes

My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program the software, and these guys were true hackers, trying to get more colors and sound and animation out of those computers.

~ Bre Pettis

'Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.'

~ Victoria Moran

The true fans were capable of not only painting their cars and homes their team colors, but also naming family pets and offspring after famous NFL all-stars.

~ Burgess Owens

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Colors are the smiles of nature.

~ Leigh Hunt

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

~ Robert Delaunay

The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It's beautiful, all of the colors, even the colors you can't see. That really fit us as a people because we are all of the colors. Our sexuality is all of the colors. We are all the genders, races, and ages.

~ Gilbert Baker

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.

~ Milton Avery

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

~ Edvard Munch

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

~ Joan Miró

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

~ Edvard Munch

I'm 19, I'm a girl, I'm very young, I like all sorts of different things, I like all sorts of different styles of music, I like all sorts of different styles of clothes, I like all sorts of different colors of hair.

~ Joss Stone

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

~ Olympia Brown

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

~ Oliver Goldsmith

We all act differently in certain places. We don't want to admit it, but we're different where we grew up than we are with our family and than we are with the guys that we went to college with or our fraternity brothers. People just exist differently. It's small, subtle things, but different colors come out. That's all there is to it.

~ Mike Colter

When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.

~ Olivia Wilde

I've always believed in a rainbow diet. As many colors and foods as you can eat, the better, because if you focus on one food, there's bound to be a report that comes out that says, 'Broccoli actually... ' So I mix it up a lot. And I take vitamins, like Biosil, which I take for my hair, skin, and nails.

~ Christie Brinkley

There is really no room in any healthy diet for trans fat, artificial sweeteners, and artificial colors in food.

~ Jillian Michaels

As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effective way. You know, it's clowns and kid's toys and bright colors and things like that.

~ Anthony Bourdain

We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we've managed over more than two centuries to create a way of life that allows for a reasonable degree of upward mobility, that prizes individual liberty, promotes freedom of religion and genuinely values equal rights for all citizens.

~ Jay Parini

I was a child who went about in a world of colors... My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.

~ Frida Kahlo

Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.

~ Keith Haring

By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight.

~ Glenn Miller

Some people hate lime-green; red has all this emotional baggage. Blue seems to be overall one of the more positive colors, and a little more serious than yellow.

~ David Carson

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

~ Pedro Almodóvar

I always see my songs in colors, and I'm often more inspired by movies and photographs than I am by other songs when I write my music. I'm also inspired by fashion, and I want my music to be a visual painting of what's in my mind.

~ Charli Xcx

I gave my heart to the Americans and thought of nothing else but raising my banner and adding my colors to theirs.

~ Marquis De Lafayette

I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.

~ Amy Grant

Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients.

~ Paul Rand

I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up.

~ Mary J. Blige

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

~ Carson Mccullers

Design, whether it's on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It's mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns - elements that you wouldn't often put together in an interesting way.

~ Blake Lively

What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor.

~ Douglas Wilson

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

~ Oscar De La Renta

Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you.

~ Karen Salmansohn

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.

~ Quincy Jones

White is actually one of my favorite colors. I have a white car. I love white.

~ Kim Kardashian

The whole point is to live life and be - to use all the colors in the crayon box.

~ Rupaul

How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?

~ Maria Montessori