Are you looking for a burst of inspiration? Check out these color quotes! They’ll get your creative juices flowing and help you see things in a new light.
The best color quotes
1. I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty. — Pablo Neruda
2. I gave my heart to the Americans and thought of nothing else but raising my banner and adding my colors to theirs. — Marquis de Lafayette
3. Actors have no color. That’s the art form. — Whoopi Goldberg
4. The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color. — Reggie Jackson
5. Don’t you dare come into my world and tell me what color the ocean is! It’s black. Black as midnight. Black and awful! — Nadia Scrieva
6. Color is a power which directly influences the soul. — Wassily Kandinsky
7. I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty. — Nikki Sixx
8. Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs. — Olivia Williams
9. The sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences. — Wassily Kandinsky
10. The water was glassy and calm, still candy–colored in the afterglow of sunset. — Stephen King
11. Coloring is relaxing even for adults–and cheap therapy. — Tara Stiles
12. … in the world, it will be women, mostly colored and poor. women will have to bury children, and support themselves through grief. — Suheir Hammad, Zaatardiva
13. One should absorb the color of life. — Oscar Wilde
14. While we appreciate our ancestry as Americans or even our ethnic ancestry and our color of skin, we believe that our real citizenship is in Heaven. — Max Lucado
15. I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background. — Zora Neale Hurston
16. Don’t resent the artist for painting the wrong picture of you after you provided the colors of your character. — Tyconis D. Allison Ty
17. The only color I judge people by is the color of their teeth. — Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
18. Shut off the internal bashing. — Melody Carlson, Blade Silver: Color Me Scarred
19. The girl was cinnamon colored in the way of Native America after it had been raped by Europe. — Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man
20. Consciousness is clear — it reflects colors of the vessel.
21. Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone’s skin, it has to do with money and their class. — Zoe Saldana
22. You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth. — Martin Scorsese
23. Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors. — Peggy A. Borel
24. I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could. — Wassily Kandinsky
25. I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty. — Pablo Neruda
26. What really grabs me about living in Tucson is the color beige. — Max Cannon
27. Actors have no color. That’s the art form. — Whoopi Goldberg
28. As I start each day I have a blank canvas. I will make every effort to fill it with color. — Wylie R. Weeks
29. Through music you learn not to care about the color of someone’s skin. — Vince Gill
30. One should not inquire too closely where ancient legends about the gods are concerned — many things which reason rejects acquire some color of probability once you bring a god into the story
31. After Arthur sent me away for my own good, it’ like my life switched from color to black and white––like the ending of The Wizard of Oz. — Nick Nolan, Wide Asleep
32. My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on. — Rachel Bilson
33. Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it. — Thomas Sowell
34. I peek up at his features, at the crooked grin i want to savor, at the color in his eyes i’d use to paint a million pictures. — Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
35. My favorite color is light tan. My favorite animal is puppies. I like serving the Lord. Hiking, playing volleyball… — Nacho Libre
36. The Power of the Pen is not in the color of ink it spills — but the power of the word it spells
37. My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that color. — William Shakespeare
38. Emotions are the colors of the soul; they are spectacular and incredible. When you don’t feel, the world becomes dull and colorless. — William Paul Young
39. And to think of all the colors in the world, blood chose to be red. — Nelou Keramati
40. Puerto Ricans are many colors–we are Spanish, we’re French, we’re Thai, Indian, we’re almost black, some of us. — Rita Moreno
41. The rest of the world was black and white, but we were in screaming color. — Taylor Swift
42. Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them. — Paul Gauguin
43. Nowadays everyone’s got the nose rings and the colored hair, so for me to wear the suit and tie is a different way to go. — Sam Raimi
44. I want to know one thing, what is color? — Pablo Picasso
45. Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone’s skin, it has to do with money and their class. — Zoe Saldana
46. Seal training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status. — William H. McRaven
47. Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil. — William Shakespeare
48. Momma, you’re special, ‘ Renesmee told me without any surprise, like she was commenting on the color of my clothes. — Stephenie Meyer
49. The only color I judge people by is the color of their teeth. — Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
50. One should absorb the color of life. — Oscar Wilde
Conclusion
It’s clear that color has been inspiring people for centuries, and will continue to inspire us in the future. Color is an essential part of our lives, and these quotes remind us just how powerful and meaningful it can be. Whether you want to celebrate the beauty of the world around you or find the courage to make a change, color can help you express yourself.
