Color Inspiration Quotes

My songwriting process is based on a formula: Color, tone, words. When I hear production, I initially identify the color that resonates with me. From there, I am able to translate the color into tone or emotion, which may depend on a number of things.

I have a Pomeranian dog named Nutmeg - a combination of the soccer move and the colour. It's perfect.

Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.

I go to somewhere I haven't been and just watch people and colors. That's my inspiration.

Not enough people enjoy working with color, which delights and inspires me.

Once you dye your hair for the first time, you see other people with dyed hair, and you see them differently than you did before. And you're just like 'Yes! Live! Work that color! Yes, I love you in every way! You're killin' it! I want to do that color next!'

I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

I know colors like some people know a melody. And the tunes of my favorite musicians energizes me when I work.

The writing is the springboard for your intuitive stuff and then you see, maybe a colour of what you want to achieve. Then you bring in the technique you've learnt. But when you're on film, you're not always in control of that. That's what makes me believe in a kind of collective unconscious, a sort of experience you draw on.

Don't take anything too literally. When throwing a coastal theme dinner, don't just put seashells on the table. Instead, think about the colors and tones of seashells, what they remind you of and go from there.

When people ask me about color in my work, I tend to say that it came from spending a lot of time in Panama.

Very little thought goes into making this stuff I make. It is on impulse. I think of colors all day and suddenly if I think of ice blue, I wonder if red or yellow will go with it.

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