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Quotations about the Color Purple
Welcome to my page of quotations about purple — the color of violets, grapes, lavender sprigs, amethyst, the edge of a rainbow!
Violet inclines to purple, and so seems to conceal under an ashy blue the pride and passion of red. ~Charles Blanc, "Personal Adornment: Colours and Their Expression," Art in Ornament and Dress, 1875, translated from French
And yet in terms of unbridled revelry, if Bacchus ever had a colour he could claim for his own it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keats’s "purple-stained mouth," or perhaps even of Homer’s dangerously wine-dark sea. ~Victoria Finlay, "Violet," Colour, 2002
Purple is the most retiring of all rich colors. It is symbolical of dignity, state, and regal power and is expressive of gravity, sorrow, and sadness. ~W. J. & G. A. Audsley, Taste versus Fashionable Colours: A Manual for Ladies on Colour in Dress, 1863
Pink, mauve and violet jostle each other from red to black. ~Derek Jarman (1942–1994), "Purple Passage," Chroma: A Book of Colour — June '93, 1994
Purple is a highly poetical colour. ~George Field, Chromatography, 1835
God love everything you love — and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration... I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982
The brook valley below Green Gables overflowed with asters of ethereal purple... ~L. M. Montgomery, "The Shadow of Change," Anne of the Island, 1915
I love, till my heart is red as February and purple as March. ~Emily Dickinson
Purple as tulips in May, mauve
into lush velvet, purple
as the stain blackberries leave
on the lips, on the hands,
the purple of ripe grapes
sunlit and warm as flesh...
~Marge Piercy, "Colors passing through us"
Roses are red
Violets are blue.
Poor violet violated for a rhyme.
~Derek Jarman (1942–1994), "Purple Passage," Chroma: A Book of Colour — June '93, 1994
They say roses are red and violets are purple
And sugar's sweet and so is maple syruple
~Roger Miller (1936–1992), "Dang Me," 1964, rogermiller.com ♫
The twilight purples stain the leaning hills... ~Mary Clemmer (1831–1884), "Change"
What is violet? clouds are violet
In the summer twilight.
~Christina G. Rossetti,"Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book, 1872
Some of the most beautiful blues and purples in nature, for instance, are those of mountains in shadow against amber sky... ~John Ruskin, "Colour," 1870
The chief glory of the old masters is their drawing and characterization. I find their color for the most part purely conventional... With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the art world since Velázquez. ~Joaquín Sorolla (1863–1923), quoted in William E. B. Starkweather, "Joaquín Sorolla: The Man and His Work," 1909
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