Best blood & color Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the China rose, like blood, like the seeds of the pomegranate, like red lead, like the red lotus, like saffron, like the resin of certain trees, like the eyes of the Greek partridge or the Indian crane…and like the interior of the half-blown water lily.’ With so many gorgeous descriptive possibilities it is curious that in English the two ancient names for rubies have come to sound incredibly ugly.”

“All flesh is one: what matter scores; Or color of the suit Or if the helmet glints with blue or gold? All is one bold achievement, All is fine spring-found-again-in-autumn day When juices run in antelopes along our blood, And green our flag, forever green...”

Source: I Live by the Invisible: New & Selected Poems

“With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.”

Doe Art Body Moving Alive Blood Movement Color Painting Variety Works Of Art

Author:Joseph Raffael

“Blood is very powerful. While meat is the substance that keeps our living souls in this physical reality, blood keeps our meat alive. Blood is liquid life. When blood escapes our bodies we are alarmed to the very core of our brains. It is life leaking out of us. It is frightening and makes red a profoundly intense color.”

Life Soul Body Reality Powerful Brain Alive Blood Color Red Core Intense Painter Substance Meat Frightening Very Powerful Liquid Bleeding Color Red

Author:Mark Ryden

“Violence, passion, indignation, loyalty, integrity, incorruptibility, shameless egoism, generosity, excitability, energy, a hundred horse-power drive - none of it very subtle: Ethel [Smyth] didn't deal in pastel shades, she went for the stronger colors, the blood-red, anything deep and pumping out of the arteries of the heart.”

Heart Passion Energy Deals Violence Blood Color Personality Integrity Hundred Red Horse Stronger Loyalty Generosity Subtle Shade Egoism Indignation Shameless Arteries Pastel

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I seemed to see the smoke and fire. But oh, the pathos of the ending when brave men conquered in the fight, knelt, kissing yielded blood-stained colors!--my eyes are blurred, I cannot write.”

Men Writing War Eye Song Fighting Fire Blood Inspire Color Battle Kissing Brave Deeds Smoke Thunder Brave Man Cannons Pathos Smoke And Fire

Book:Nadine and Other Poems

Source: Nadine and Other Poems

“Im in love with red. I think its such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. Its power, theres no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you dont. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. Theyre all magic.”

Thinking Country Magic Blood Color Sitting Red Blue Passionate Shade Flags Fence Strength And Life Shades Of Blue

Author:Bryan Batt

“The heavy sensual shoulders, the thighs, the blood-born flesh and earth turning into color, rocks into their crystals, water to sound, fire to form: life flickers uncounted into the supple arms of love.”

Earth Form Sound Water Born Fire Blood Rocks Color Arms Heavy Flesh Shoulders Sensuality Sensual Crystals Thighs Flicker Supple

Book:Out of silence: selected poems

Source: Out of silence: selected poems

“My favorite name for a color is "puce." It's kind of a dried blood color. It's a hideous color. But I love the word. It's so euphonic. But my favorite colors are lavender, purple, periwinkle blue, and white.”

Kind Names White Blood Color Blue My Favorite Purple Hideous Lavender Favorite Color Periwinkle Blue And White

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“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.”

Thinking Difficult Blood Color Gold Listening To Music Rushing

Author:Charli XCX

“Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books spine, grape-colored whales spouted blood around a newspaper item (pasted in) listing arrivals to the endangered spieces list. Six hatchlings cried from shattered shells near an entry made on Easter. Cecilia had filled the pages with a profusion of colors and curlicues, candyland ladders and striped shamrocks.”

Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

“There was the blue sky above her and all those many roses, the ones that gave off the scent of cloves in the rain and the ones that left a trace of lemon on your fingers, the ones that were the color of blood, and those that were as white as clouds. Each one was sweeter than the next and as red as gemstones.”

Next Left White Blood Sky Color Red Rain Blue Rose Fingers Clouds Scent Lemons Blue Sky

Book:The River King

Source: The River King

“I would assign every lie a color: yellow when they were innocent, pale blue when they sailed over you like the sky, red because I knew they drew blood. And then there was the black lie. That's the worst of all. A black lie was when I told you the truth.”

Lying Black Blood Sky Worst Color Red Blue Innocent Over You Yellow Pale

Author:Steve Martin

“If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the swing, or the pattern of the clematis vines on the trellis, or the velvety swell of land as it faded to gray on the horizon . . . . The very colors of the place had seeped into my blood.”

Ifs Has Beens House Blood Land Color Patterns Familiar Horizon Gray Swings Faded Vines

Book:The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“… people didn't seem to be able to remember what it was like with the elves around. Life was certainly more interesting then, but usually because it was shorter. And it was more colorful, if you liked the color of blood.”

People Ifs Seems Able Remember Interesting Blood Color Colorful

Author:Terry Pratchett

“With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of our blood and the salt of our tears.”

Wells Social Blood Tears Color Evolution Conscience Passages Salt Passage Of Time

Author:Jose Saramago

“Well Vin says that there's something behind all this, right? Some evil force of doom or whatever? Well, if I were said force of doom, then I certainly wouldn't have used my powers to turn the land black. It just lacks flair. Red. Now, that would be an interesting color. Think of the possibilities--if the ash were red, the rivers would run like blood. Black is so monotonous that you can forget about it, but red--you'd always be thinking, 'Why, look at that. That hill is red. That evil force of doom trying to destroy me certainly has style.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Wells Looks Said Would Be Running Used Turns Evil Force Black Forget Interesting Behinds Blood Land Style Possibility Color Red Rivers Hills Ashes Doom Monotonous Flair

Book:Mistborn Trilogy

Source: Mistborn Trilogy

“They rode on and the sun in the east flushed pale streaks of light and then a deeper run of color like blood seeping up in sudden reaches flaring planewise and where the earth drained up into the sky at the edge of creation the top of the sun rose out of nothing like the head of a great red phallus until it cleared the unseen rim and sat squat and pulsing and malevolent behind them.”

Light Running Earth Behinds Sun Blood Sky Creation Color Red Rose Edges Deeper East Sat Pale Unseen Streaks Drained Rims Squat

Book:Blood Meridian: Picador Classic

Source: Blood Meridian: Picador Classic

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