#colors

Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#fit #must #pieces #puzzle #together

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing. ↗

— Joan Didion

#down #every #go #like #novels

We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#black #black and white #bright #colors #differences

Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast. ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

#colors #fast #god #lost #never

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#bliss #charming #colors #consummate #deceptive

Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings. ↗

— Keith Haring

#colors #eye #fact #guess #i

Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#black #colors #humanity #individuality #life

The pianokeys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind ↗

— Maria Cristina Mena

#interpretation #music #philosophy #piano #racism

My skin is kind of sort of brownish pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, but I'm told they look orange in the night. My hair is reddish blondish brown, but its silver when its wet, and all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

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In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#colors #does #essence #find #i