Pastel Quotes

• Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Book, Reading, Giving

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• I go with what I like and I generally just cling to things that are pastel and remind me of being a little kid. It's just what it is right now, but I go through phases.

  Melanie Martinez

  Kids, Phases, Littles

  Source: lithiummagazine.com

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• I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.

  Laura Mvula

  Chocolate, Skins, Shade

  "Laura Mvula on why she, like many black women, shaves her head". Interview with Anita Bhagwandas, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2013.

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• And although Margarita lived in a world that predated Technicolor, she always dreamed of the boy in rich pastels.

  Salvador Plascencia

  Boys, World, Rich

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• Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Writing, Color, Show Me

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.31, Bantam

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• Turquoise, yellow, pink, a lot of the pastel colors are some of the more popular suit colors this year. But it varies from old to young.

  Amy Wright

  Past, Color, Years

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• Like black, do you? (Cassandra) It serves its purpose. It’s hard to look intimidating in pastels. (Wulf)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Black, Looks, Purpose

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• Savannah is a . . . lovely pastel dream of tight cobbled streets. . . . There are legendary scenes . . . to rival any dreamed up by Tennessee Williams.

  Rosemary Daniell

  Dream, Lovely, Tennessee

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• Too much sparkle can detract from the focal point of the painting, so I blend some areas to tone down the look of the pastels in less important areas.

  Paul Murray

  Past, Important, Looks

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• Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor, like a beautiful-sunset greeting cards they used to make so many of in California. High-gloss hearts. The danger is grayout.

  Margaret Atwood

  Beautiful, Flower, Heart

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clumsy feelings that they can't express, and it hurts me. So I go home and burnish it and polish it and weld it to a rhythmic frame, make the dull colors gleam, mute the garish artificiality to pastels, so it doesn't hurt any more: that's my poem. I know what they want to say, and I say it for them.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Hurt, Home, Color

  Samuel R. Delany (1969). “Babel-17”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• With dogs and people, it's love in big splashy colours. When you're involved with a cat, you're dealing in pastels.

  Louis J. Camuti

  Dog, Cat, People

  Dr. louis J. Camuti, Marilyn Frankel, Haskel Frankel (1985). “All My Patients are Under the Bed”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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• Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Art, Moving, Oil

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.11, Macmillan

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• Never get on an airplane if the pilot is wearing a hat that has more than three pastel colors.

  George Carlin

  Airplane, Color, Three

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.

  Paul Mellon

  Emotional, Oil, Drawing

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• All his life Robert Grainier would remember vividly the burned valley at sundown, the most dreamlike business he’d ever witnessed waking—the brilliant pastels of the last light overhead, some clouds high and white, catching daylight from beyond the valley, others ribbed and gray and pink, the lowest of them rubbing the peaks of Bussard and Queen mountains; and beneath this wondrous sky the black valley, utterly still, the train moving through it making a great noise but unable to wake this dead world.

  Denis Johnson

  Queens, Moving, Clouds

  Denis Johnson (2012). “Train Dreams”, p.30, Granta Books

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• My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. All my works in pastels are the products of obsessional neurosis and are therefore inextricably connected to my disease. I create pieces even when I don’t see hallucinations, though.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Art, Sculpture, Pieces

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• The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy. Even at night, as if on purpose, the development held no looming shadows and no gaunt silhouettes. It was invincibly cheerful, a toyland of white and pastel houses whose bright, uncurtained windows winked blandly through a dappling of green and yellow leaves … A man running down these streets in desperate grief was indecently out of place.

  Richard Yates

  Running, Grief, Night

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• I love pointy nails! A cute way to add a pop of color to your nails is to make a V-shape at the ends of them in a pastel color.

  Bella Thorne

  Cute, Color, Nails

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Loyalty, Horse, Integrity

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• He goes for stark versus accessorized, dark over bright, jewel tone instead of pastel, carnal over flirty.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Flirty, Dark, Jewels

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.306, Dell

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• Over the years, she [my mother] always encouraged me in the arts. She actually worked at an art museum when we were kids. I took classes there. She was the one that, when we'd go to the store and I would have a pack of eight pastels, she'd say, "No, get the 24-pack." She was always encouraging me to get the best materials, which was really awesome.

  Jeff Vespa

  Mother, Art, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at Pastels since I'm positive we won't get seated but the table is good, and relief that is almost tidal in scope washes over me in an awesome wave.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Tears, Relief, Tables

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.40, Pan Macmillan

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• My parents made no money whatsoever, but they really knew how to see, as artists. So a big adventure might be, on a hot, dreadful day with no place to go, to go out and draw our chickens with pastels. My parents gave me a sense of wonder.

  Ali MacGraw

  Adventure, Artist, Parent

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• The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!

  Rupert Friend

  Ambition, People, Car

  "Rupert Friend Talks Directing Short Film Debut 'Steve,' Starring Knightley and Firth". Interview with Maggie Lange, www.indiewire.com. September 26, 2012.

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