I never use colors. Black and white are all I need. Most of my clothes are black and white, too. I suppose the most flamboyant color in my wardrobe is dark brown. – Leonard Baskin (1922–2000)

The handwriting on the wall means the grandchildren found the crayons. – Author Unknown

[T]he colored pencil. The day we received our first full box of assorted colors we felt grown-up, the passage from baby status to childhood was complete. The broken wax crayon stubbles were immediately thrown out to make way for the more elegant and “mature” pencils. – Bernard Aimé Poulin (b.1945), The Complete Colored Pencil Book, 2011

Biographical sketch, in fugitive crayons, of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford – John Pinkerton, 1799