Jim Henson Quotes

As a little girl in the '50s, I couldn't wear a purple-and-white flowered skirt with a red blouse - those colors were too loud. My parents were not into that 'We are Negros that wear all beige,' but there was a line you could walk over that could signal vulgar, crass, rather than clever use of color. And that outfit crossed over the line.

Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

I'm in love with red. I think it's such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. It's power, there's no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you don't. 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. They're all magic.

Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.

I don't know if I have a favorite color.

I like light green, sometimes red is fun to look at, not a fan of yellow, unless it's in a rainbow or on a coffee mug or on a happy face.

I am a believer that color affects people's moods.

Everything is about color. If you look at magazines and advertising and television, the thing you remember is the color.

I don't have a favourite colour!

I think purple is a great color.

In teaching color, you teach people how to look something and see the tone in it and break it down to be able to paint it and reproduce that color. But then, I'm psychedelic, so I look at color differently. I like colors that are in contrast with one another, so that they flicker back and forth.

The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds.

In most scripts, one or two characters have a lot of colors.

You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind.

Color has always been important to me, ever since my first deluxe box of Crayolas.

Color is a big part of what I do. It's like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, but there are endless permutations; there's no limit to the number. Color on the walls or furniture can reflect back and distort the reality of the true colors of lipsticks and eye shadow.

I think my sense of color I have got from my upbringing in Peru.

I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice.

If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?

Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

I don't like mixed colors that much, like plum color or deep, deep colors that are hard to define.

Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

Very seldom do I use white in my books.

Red's my favorite color.