(755 quotes found)
“Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.”
John Greenleaf Whittier
“I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.”
Whoopi Goldberg
“The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.”
Primo Levi
“Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested -- for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.”
Emma Goldman
“I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.”
Malcolm X
“An American can have a Ford in any color so long as its black.”
Henry Ford
“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
“True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.”
Edward Hoagland
“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. . . . I do not weep at the world -- I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”
Zora Neale Hurston
“The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
