Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dale Chihuly

I can’t understand it when people say they don’t like a particular color. . . . How on earth can you not like a color?

Dale Chihuly

I never met a color I didn't like.

Claude Chabrol

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

Claude Chabrol

I like to have the screen full of color, twenty colors on the screen at once, fifty colors. There are no dominants despite what people have said.

Claude Debussy

I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.

Damien Hirst

I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.

Clive Bell

It is not by his mixing and choosing, but by the shapes of his colors, and the combination of those shapes, that we recognize the colorist. Color becomes significant only when it becomes form.

Anne Fadiman

Some friends of theirs had rented their house for several months to an interior decorator. When they returned, they discovered that their entire library had been reorganized by color and size. Shortly thereafter, the decorator met with a fatal automobile accident. I confess that when this story was told, everyone around the dinner table concurred that justice had been served.

Anne Hathaway

Because the world of this film begins and ends in the imagination of Tim Burton, you're not seeing a movie that's been shot on locations that you've seen a million times. Because this world has no rules, you're seeing so many different and separate brushstrokes and colors and characterizations somehow getting combined through Tim.

Andres Serrano

Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.

Andres Segovia

Every guitarist has a special quality of sound. The best ones will use a good ear, much sensitivity and a thorough knowledge of music to prepare the nuances and colors of sound.

Chuck Close

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.

Chuck Close

At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves.

Chuck D.

I encourage more blacks and people of color to get a passport. That's one way to help put people on an equal platform.

Ann Sothern

I finally realized the happy medium, 'honey blonde' was the correct color and line for me.

Alveda King

Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color.

Angela Davis

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

Alvin Ailey

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

Anne Sexton

The fish are naked. The fish are always awake. They are the color of old spoons and caramels.

Anna Deavere Smith

Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.

Anita Diament

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.

Anthony Horowitz

McCain might have suffered hardships in his life, but what had happened to him had nothing to do with his background or his color; they were convenient excuses now. He had been a psychopath from the start.

Alice Walker

America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.

Alexander Pope

The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.

E. L. Konigsburg

They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.

Douglas Trumbull

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.

Donna Karan

I was so overwhelmed by India when I first came - it still inspires me because I still go for the culture, I still go for the colors.

Donna Karan

Its really easy to get colors right. Its really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but its also an illusion.

Dr. John

The specter of color is apparent even when it goes unmentioned, and it is all too often the unseen force that influences public policy as well as private relationships. There is nothing more remarkable than the ingenuity that the various demarcations of the color line reflect. If only the same creative energy could be used to eradicate the color line; then its days would indeed be numbered.

Douglas Wilson

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

Dalai Lama

The colors of light are infinite through refraction, yet they all come from the same source. Thus I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul, nor fail to identify with the most virtuous.

Dani Shapiro

Let me tell you something about hypochondria: It's a pernicious, undermining little demon. It won't kill you, but it will sap the color from your life so that in the loveliest moments, the moments of grace, you are hit with that whisper in your ear that takes it all away. I'm sick, I'm dying - I just don't know it yet.

Daisy Ashford

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