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[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.
Gray is great. People think gray is a neutral, but I think it's such a moody, intense, dramatic and sexy color. It's very sleek.
I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.
I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.
Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.
It's important to maintain an attractive smile as you age. A lighter, less beige, more white tooth color is key, but no Chiclets.
The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale.
Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.
It's the one thing we can all relate to no matter what religion, what color, what nationality: we can all relate to sex and love.
It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...
Boys don't mature. They just age. But aged boys know how to flow with a different destination, and to shine with different color.
There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas.
I think for folks of color the key to combatting racism period is a) trusting their instincts and b) solidarity with one another.
Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs.
My life was once whiskey, tears and cigarettes... now it's snot, tears and a color of poop. Bliss. I do miss the whiskey, though.
Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
I don't know a single black girl who's carefree because it ain't easy being a girl of color, period. God, I wish we were carefree.
In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it
I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can.
There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color.
Grooming is 10 times more important than makeup. I use a hair gloss with a teeny bit of color in it that makes my hair very shiny.
The flesh of king salmon, which varies in color from white to pink to red, has a high fat content, making it perfect for grilling.
In fact, I think new media is going to make a big difference with injecting more people of color into Hollywood and non-Hollywood.
We stand with President Obama - love doesn't have a color, love doesn't care if you're gay or straight. Love doesn't discriminate.
If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.
We're excited for when Sony greenlights the $50 million film a "Bunch Of Swirling Colors" starring George Clooney and a lava lamp.
Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
The actual technique, the process of painting flat color and simple geometric edges, all dates from my time here on Coenties Slip.
Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What is musical?
It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.
It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.
I never plan anything in an analytical way before I shoot, but when I look back there seems to be kind of a primary color palette.
Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color.
I use different media, but I still think as a painter. I organize my forms and colors on a screen like a painter does on a canvas.
Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines.
I think it doesn't matter what color you are. Everybody is getting the - getting the stick, and I'm sure Trump feels the same way.
The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.
By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.
A good organization is like a box of crayons. You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box.
Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.
Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and so on.
I always see colors when I listen to music. It's difficult to explain, but when I hear the music I think about gold, blood rushing.
If you were the sky, I would unfurl myself in you, as a rainbow of colors yet unseen. I would become oceans of stars in your night.
To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.
If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.
Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.
The statement is that I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time.
It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.