I really believe that the color we use least in our metaphors is gray. In our political metaphors, we talk about the ‘greens’, we talk about the ‘brown shirts’, we talk about the ‘blacks’, the ‘reds’, we rarely talk about gray, except perhaps, when referring to old people. Yet gray in my opinion is “the” […]
Color Quotes
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color, is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
On our way back from one of our visits to Matisse, Pablo (Picasso) said, laughing, “Matisse has such good lungs.” I asked what he meant. ” It’s in the way he uses color,” he said. In Matisse’s work, when you find three tones that are put on close to one another – let’s say a […]
Pink is the color of romance and a friend tells me that the girl with the pink dress at the party is the one who is selected for each dance.
The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.
I don’t want to be told that I must love a woman or a man because of their color, any more than I want to be told that I must hate them because of their color. I love and hate only a few, and their color may have as little or as much to do […]
I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white; beside me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity.
In some countries, red is considered the most masculine color. This is even true in England, where red is seen as more masculine than blue. (British soldiers often had red dress uniforms, and the British Empire was always colored red on maps.)
There’s something about black. You feel hidden away in it.
