Color Quotes

Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.

I really believe that the color we use least in our metaphors is gray. In our political metaphors, we talk about the ‘greens’, we talk about the ‘brown shirts’, we talk about the ‘blacks’, the ‘reds’, we rarely talk about gray, except perhaps, when referring to old people. Yet gray in my opinion is “the” […]

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color, is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child… I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell; if it doesn’t turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it. . . I am no cleverer than […]