Local color may refer to:
- Local Color (book), a 1950 note and sketch study by Truman Capote
- Local Color (film), a 2006 film starring Trevor Morgan
- Local color (literature) or regionalism, a genre of fiction or poetry
- Local color (visual art), the natural color of an object
- Local Colour: Travels in the Other Australia, a book by Bill Bachman and Tim Winton
- Local Color, European travel essays by Truman Capote published in 1950
- Local Color, a short-story collection by John Andrew Rice
- Local Color, an art exhibition by Tullio DeSantis
Famous quotes containing the words local and/or color:
“These native villages are as unchanging as the woman in one of their stories. When she was called before a local justice he asked her age. “I have 45 years.” “But,” said the justice, “you were forty-five when you appeared before me two years ago.” “Señor Judge,” she replied proudly, drawing herself to her full height, “I am not of those who are one thing today and another tomorrow!””
—State of New Mexico, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“It is never the thing but the version of the thing:
The fragrance of the woman not her self,
Her self in her manner not the solid block,
The day in its color not perpending time,
Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord,
The weather in words and words in sounds of sound.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)