Color My World

Is there anything more full of promise than a fresh, never-been-used-yet box of crayons, each crayon with its tip still sharp and perfect?

I went looking for some cool quotes about crayons, and I found so many good ones, I couldn't use just one. So here are a half-dozen of my favorites.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. ~Claude Monet

A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic. ~Bill Watterson

Colors are the smiles of nature. ~Leigh Hunt

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No. ~Pablo Picasso

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. ~Robert Fulghum

Give crayons. Adults are disturbingly impoverished of these magical dream sticks. ~Dr. SunWolf