“Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy—but mysterious… Black can swallow light, or make things look sharp. But above all black says this: ‘I don’t bother you—don’t bother me!’”— Yohji Yamamoto, nytimes.com
“They don't hear your voice! They just see the color of your face. You understand? You understand?”— Hugh Glass, imdb.com
“"Do you have a pen- I don't have a pen...Can you remember all my shit? Do you have a lipstick or something? A crayon?"”— Dane Cook, genius.com
“Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“When Michael started, it was a different world. But because Michael kept going, because he didn’t accept limitations, because he refused to let people decide his boundaries, he opened up the whole world. In the music world, he put on one glove, pulled his pants up and broke down the color curtain.”— Al Sharpton, youtube.com
“We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right. Look at computers. Why are they all putty-colored or off-fucking-white? You make something off-white or beige because you are afraid to use any other color - because you don't want to offend anybody. B…”— Tibor Kalman, wired.com
“But in this life she was a light-brown-skinned beauty who wore short skirts and fishnet hose and platform shoes with ankle straps.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.”— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com
“A game at which the liberals have become masters is that of deliberate evasiveness. The question often comes up `what can you do?`. If you ask him to do something like stopping to use segregated facilities or dropping out of varsity to work at menial jobs like all blacks or defying and denouncing al…”— Steve Biko, amazon.com
“A little while ago I took a nap under an olive tree, and the color harmonies I saw were so touching. It's like a paradise you have no right to analyze, but you are a painter, for God's sake! Nice is so beautiful! Alight so soft and tender, despite its brilliance.”— Henri Matisse, en.wikiquote.org
“Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my effort to create an equivalent with paint color for the world – life as I see it.”— Georgia O’Keeffe, en.wikiquote.org
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.”— Georgia O’Keeffe, goodreads.com
“There is not one little blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.”— Josef Albers, amazon.com
“I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.”— Adolph Gottlieb, amazon.com