Colour Quotes

“At first there was nothing - a profound blue darkness running running deep, laced by skeins of starlight and pale phosphorescent flashes. This four o-clock hour was a moment of utter silence, the indrawn breath of dark, the absolute, trance-like balance between night and day. Then, when it seemed that nothing would ever move or live or know the light again, a hot wind would run over the invisible water. It was like a fore-blast of the turning world, an intimation that its rocks and seas and surfaces still stirred against the sun. One strained one's eyes, scarce breathing, searching for a sign. Presently it came. Far in the east at last the horizon hardened, an imperceptible line dividing sky and sea, sharp as a diamond cut on glass. A dark bubble of cloud revealed itself, warmed slowly, flushing from within like a seed growing, a kernel ripening, a clinker hot with locked-in fire. Gradually the cloud throbbed red with light, then suddenly caught the still unrisen sun and burst like an expanding bomb. Flares and streamers began to fall into the sea, setting all things on fire. After the long unthinking darkness everything now began to happen at once. The stars snapped shut, the sky bled green, vermillion tides ran over the water, the hills around took on the colour of firebrick, and the great sun drew himself at last raw and dripping from the waves. Scarlet, purple, and clinker-blue, the morning, smelling of thyme and goats, of charcoal, splintered rock and man's long sojourn around this lake”
― Laurie Lee, A Rose for Winter

“Pink gives me reason to love every colour in life.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“He drew in a breath and all the seasons were in it; spring greenness in the grass, and somewhere a dog-rose blooming; the secretive scent of fungus clinging to the oak, and underneath it all something sharper waiting in a promise of winter.”
― Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent

“A woman is like the colour of the rainbow, very colourful and so beautiful.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman

“If magic was a colour,
That colour would be sparkling blue”
― Lucy H. Pearce, She of the Sea

“With the very first rays of light it came alive in me: hope. As things emerged in outline and filled with colour, hope increased until it was like a song in my heart. Oh, what it was to bask in it!”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“I pulled up my feet, bent my knee, and rested my chin on my hand. Then I closed my eyes. Still no sounds. The darkness behind my closed eyelids was like the cloud-covered sky, but the grey was somewhat deeper. Every few minutes, someone would come and paint over the grey with a different-textured grey – one with a touch of gold or green or red. I was impressed with the variety of greys that existed. Human beings were so strange. All you had to do was sit still for ten minutes, and you could see this amazing variety of greys.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Humans get hungry for blue, it seems: to hold the sea in
their hands, to wear the sky in their hair, to drape themselves in the hazy blue of distant mountains. Blue is more
than a colour: it is a feeling. We don’t say that we feel orange or
purple, but we say we feel blue when our souls are sad and heavy. We
play or sing or listen to the blues to express this sensation. Like any
colour, it cannot be adequately described with words, only experienced, known through the eyes and the soul.

Making blue has always been magic: the domain of alchemists since the beginning of human history. To find red only required blood or
berries or the smearing of red clay. To make brown was as simple as
reaching down to the earth beneath one’s feet. White chalk is plentiful in many places, or can be replaced by fire ash. But blue appears
rarely in forms from which paints or dyes can be made…blue requires earthly magic.”
― Lucy H. Pearce, She of the Sea

“Colours make nature pulsate with life.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Some expect everything.
Some expect nothing.
And at the end of the day
we all look at the same world
- just with different colours in mind.”
― Laura Chouette

“Don’t despise people based on their colour, ethnicity or creed. God loves variety, So, live with it.”
― Abiodun Fijabi

“Maybe what we create outlives us - so art is nothing but a thought inside something that has passed and yet living inside everything one can ever dream of; a sketch of ideas inside of a world of colours.”
― Laura Chouette

“Sing with intention, draw with words, speak in colour, dance with emotion.”
― Monaristw

“Red leaves the other colors blushing with emotions.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Colour's given me rainbows of fun.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Just as the triggers for depression are correct and present every day, so are triggers for joy.”
― Shaista Tayabali, LUPUS, YOU ODD UNNATURAL THING: a tale of auto-immunity

“Mood isn't a particular thought or a particular part of the brain, nor in a particular part of the body, such as a foot or an ear, it is everywhere, but nothing in itself, more like a colour in which thoughts are thought, a colour through which the world is seen.”
― Karl Ove Knausgaard, Min kamp 5

“Make decisions after you know all the cards. Sometimes, people make the wrong decisions because they have never known what the right ones are. They believe what they know to be right. Only certain colours exist in their world because life experiences have blinded to other colours. My son, you have to take away the blindfold if you must.”
― Norah Koch, Her Wicked Ceo: How To Seduce A Hikikomori Wife?

“Right/Wrong Things To Say To A Client About Color/Colour

Don’t Say… Since you want to hide your body, wear black.
Do Say… Let’s look at your personal coloring and find your best colors, so no color sabotage allowed. You come alive when you wear your best colors. Let me show you.”
― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today

“When swimmers dive
into my memory pool
crystal waves
rise in hundreds from the
blurred water.”
― Geeta Tripathee, Nrishamsa Parkhalharu

“I hope you get to feeling pert soon ma'am I miss seeing my bonny Picasso." He grinned.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

“We live in a world where empty glasses are called paupers and juice-filled glasses are the rich. Painted water is not always what it is when transparency is part of the package.”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“Black is colourful as white is a colour that is beautiful.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“It's by recognizing our flaws that we can strengthen them, recognizing where flowers came from that we can hope not to burn down the only home we ever knew.”
― Monaristw

“Color just doesn't add something to a certain something. It gives it life!”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Colour touches all hearts.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Your feet may follow a path, but it is the colours of the rainbow which will guide you.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Rainbows, make my week shine with the beautiful colours of life.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Imagine if the adult sections of all hospitals were filled with cheery pictures, illustrations, bright pops of colour – well, perhaps not the fluorescent variety that currently graces Burger King’s eating areas – but an equal measure of artistic and psychological research done into what makes humans happy and apply those images to hospitals.”
― Shaista Tayabali, LUPUS, YOU ODD UNNATURAL THING: a tale of auto-immunity

“Lies only color the world black.”
― Anthony T. Hincks