Colour Quotes

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

Colour is a creative element, not a trimming.

We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to another form on its own, it does not exist.

True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.

Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.

You'll get unsociable people whatever the nationality, colour, race or creed. I guess the British abroad have probably got the worst record of anyone.

Anything can be any color at any time depending on what color everything else is at the time.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.

Color is the fruit of life.

I have always liked black and white! It is simple and the colour of the piano.

The sensation of colour cannot be accounted for by the physicist's objective picture of light-waves.

The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the colour and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would reproduce the feeling of the real skin.

Allah made us all a different shade and colour. Nations and tribes recognize one another! 'Cause every single person is your sister and brother.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me This supermarket life is getting long What is the heart life of a colour TV What is the shelf life of a teenage queen

But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well.

Now's the time when children's noses All become as red as roses And the colour of their faces Makes me think of orchard places Where the juicy apples grow, And tomatoes in a row.

Put variety in white.

I have always loved tartans - such an ornamented type of weaving, so vivid in colour, and such a masculine aspect. But actually, I think tartans can be feminine or masculine.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

No one knows the colour of a flower till it is broken.

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.

Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.

For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.

A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.

Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour.

Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.

When I think of flavours, I think colour, so lemon should be yellow and orange is orange.

Nearly all the Brazilian supporters are wearing yellow shirts - it's a fabulous kaleidoscope of colour.

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?

All colours will agree in the dark.

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

And what colour do you suppose the inner depths of your soul are, Will Herondale?' 'Mauve,' said Will.

This moment is so much bigger than me. It's for every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.

Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.

If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.

In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.

Our recovery of hope - full colour, three-dimensional, hard working, clear thinking, wildly radical, living hope - is our key to liberation.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.

I don't even know what my natural colour is. Natural? What is natural? What is that? I do not believe in totally natural for women. For me, natural has something to do with vegetables.

I should like to take the wind and water and sand as a motif and work with them, but it has to be simplified in most cases to colour and force lines, just as music has done with sound.

Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.

I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.