- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coloring Quotes
The quiet appeal of staying inside the lines.
Several of these quotes come from people whose careers ran through coloring in some form, animators, cover artists, cartoonists, who describe it as genuinely relaxing rather than childish.
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- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given that I have to share my computer with my three children, it's not usually a site that I get to spend that much time on. I'm usually on the Nickelodeon site, coloring with my little five year old or something.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I know I'm going to work on a cover, I practically run to the computer! After working with words for so long, it's lovely to do something that's creative yet also the professional equivalent of scribbling in your own coloring book.
- Colored
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a top-notch cartoon model for Hanna Barbera, and they made me into a cartoon series called 'Devlin,' which ran for seven years, and I was on lunch pails and coloring books and all of that. It's really interesting being a coloring book when you're young - most kids colored in coloring books, but I made money off coloring books.
- Birds
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- Nov 07, 2020
At home, I'm daddy and a husband. There's no Superman's cape. I'm changing diapers, giving my kids baths, and coloring 'Angry Birds' and playing games with them.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for him to build a composition by first outlining figures and objects in black and then filling the interstices in a perfunctory manner that can put one in mind of a museum-shop coloring book.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a dirty little secret that I'm pretty self-conscious about coloring my own work. I just see so many people who love color more than me that I get freaked out every time I hit Photoshop. Black and white? I know exactly what to do, but color offers a million solutions to problems I don't even know exist.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do all my coloring on PhotoShop - it's good and bad: It helped refine my color, but I do miss the texture and organic quality of the traditional.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personalized beauty is about each woman being able to create her own makeup routine that complements her coloring and style.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020