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Johann Joachim Winckelmann Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not [color] but the structure that constitutes its essence.
Johann Joachim Winckelmann Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not [color] but the structure that constitutes its essence.
Henri Matisse 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.
Lyndon B. Johnson Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
Marc Chagall In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Jules Feiffer Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.
Anon. Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.
Laertius Diogenes Blushing is the color of virtue.
Ameer Sadet Mahdy If your only measure of value is color, then you shall never appreciate the transparence of diamonds.
Learned Hand Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.
William Gibson The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
Austin O'Malley Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind.
Alice Walker I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
John Johnson Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.
William Faulkner 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.
Paul Gauguin It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.
Martin Luther King, Jr. 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.
Johann von Goethe Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
Margaret Mead Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Hal Borland A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
DANTE: _Inferno, Longfellow's Trans.,_ Canto iii., Line 9. All hope abandon, ye who enter in! These words in sombre color I beheld Written upon the summit of a gate.
Don Hirschberg Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.
Georgia O'Keeffe I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
Burton Rascoe A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life--what people are interested in. That's journalism.
Abraham Lincoln 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!
Martin Luther King, Jr. 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
Robert Green Ingersoll I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain.
Robert Kennedy If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
Vincent Canby Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.
Robert Francis Kennedy If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
Henry M. Jackson America is not like a blanket -- one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt -- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.
Albert Schweitzer An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color- blind.
Socrates May memory restore again and again The smallest color of the smallest day: Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn.
Jesse Louis Jackson America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts As the evening sun faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.
Old School Frank Well, uh I guess I, deep down, am feeling a little confused. I mean, suddenly, you get married, and you're supposed to be this entirely different guy. I don't feel different. I mean, take yesterday for example. We were out at the Olive Garden for dinner, which was lovely. And uh, I happen to look over at a certain point during the meal and see a waitress taking an order, and I found myself wondering what color her underpants might be. Her panties. Uh, odds are they are probably basic white, cotton, underpants. But I sort of think well maybe they're silk panties, maybe it's a thong. Maybe it's something really cool that I don't even know about. You know, and uh, and I started feeling... what what I thought we were in the trust tree in the nest, were we not
Roger B. Taney It citizenship would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other state whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, andwithout obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of the law for which a white man would be punished it citizenship would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went. And all this would be done in the face of the subject race of the same color, both free and slaves, inevitably producing discontent and insubordination among them, and endangering the peace and safety of the State.
Color, Delete...
My lucky color just faded.
What color is a chameleon on a mirror?
Favorite color: I hate colors.
Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.
"Bother," said Pooh, as Beverly's hair changed color yet again.
"Bother," said Pooh as Beverly's hair changed color yet again
"Bother!" said Pooh, as Beverly's hair changed color yet again.
"Bother!" said Pooh as Beverly's hair changed color yet again.
"Hair color by Bozo the Clown" -- Crow T. Robot
"Hair color by Bozo the Clown..." Crow T. Robot
"Live! Civic Arena: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Color Me Badd!"
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
"Bother", said Pooh, as Garanian Bolites made him itch & change color.
"Bother," said Pooh, as Garanian Bolites made him itch&change color
"Bother," said Pooh, as @FN@'s hair changed color yet again
"Oh, Lister. You've forgotten the color code!" * Rimmer
"If atheism is a religion, then bald is a hair color."
"What color is the sky in your world, Joel?" -- Crow T. Robot
"Bother," said Pooh, as @N@'s hair changed color yet again.
"I add it to the yeast infections for additional color & flavor!"
"Hair color by Bozo the Clown." Tom Servo
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
"Tap to produce 3 mana of any color." Mox Lotus
"Only sissies are in color!" -- Black and White Dot
"What color is your parachute?" -- Mike Nelson
"*You* try and color-coordinate in the dark!" -- Klinger
"Why are you painting the walls the same color?" * Lister
"My favorite color? Pink! No, BluAAAAAHHH!"
"It's like a jigsaw puzzle, all one color." -=- Kirk
"My favorite color? Red. No, BluAAAAAHHH!"
"New": Different color from previous model
"Is that a new color lipstick?" Neelix
"I'm bleeding an unfashionable color!" * Cat
"Hated it!" --In Living Color
"That's an Aardvark of a different color"
"Only SISSIES are in color!" - BW-Dot
"What is your favorite color?!" "Blue!..no, yellAAAAAARRGGGH
"Looks like some local color." "Yeah... White trash!"
"What is your favorite color?" "Blue - no - yel"
"The color of gold is gold. That's why it's called gold."

 

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