Colour Quotes

It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.

Those loves which are for the sake of a colour are not love. In the end they are a disgrace.

My motivation comes from a love of being creative. I'm in love with music and colour and laughter and dancing and all things that are beautiful.

I don't know my natural hair colour. I haven't seen it for a while.

Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter?

I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.

But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.

Ill-fitted T-shirts stretched over a gut are my pet hate. And if the colour's faded - ugh.

Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about "welfare mothers" - a code phrase for people of colour.

I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I'm able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I'm able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.

The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I have read.

All colours are arbitrary.

People get nervous accessorising, but there is nothing wrong with adding a belt or a pair of shoes in another colour.

He flushed, the colour dark against his pale skin. 'I mean. Tessa Gray, will you do me the honour of becoming my wife?' Jem.

His blue eyes were very dark...Will's were the colour of the sky just on the edge of the night.

Often my very first flash of colour recognition, before it has been processed by the rest of the information in my brain, is the right one.

Fashion is meant to be wild and expressive. I love colour but I also love basics - grungy minimalism mixed with this kind of broken-down cheerleader, is my thing.

Hi. There was a big accident, some people got decapitated, here are their names... You know what? That shirt really makes you look fat. I mean, the colour's all wrong... I mean, who shot the drapes?

I know the colour rose, and it is lovely, But not when it ripens in a tumour; And healing greens, leaves and grass, so springlike, In limbs that fester are not springlike.

I don't really need to be inspired by literature though. At the end of the day it's colour and imagery moved around until it works.

It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.

I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.

I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not listen. They thought the road to salvation lay by the way of colour.

It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice

At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.

Holy Moses, let us live in peace. Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease. There's a man over there, what's his colour I don't care, he's my brother, let us live in peace.

I'm really not into that super-crazy-colour, smiley-faces-on-the-front-of-your-dress look. That's not my thing. You're not going to see me in pink. Or anything frilly. Or a tutu. Or bows.

Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.

I am not... totally unreceptive to colour providing it makes its appearance quietly, deferentially, and without undue fanfare.

I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.

I love most things in my life. I feel it's important to try and live life through adventure, colour and love.

Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it.

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.

Think colour! Know how to imagine it!

Most of my monsters fail altogether to satisfy my sense of the cosmic - the abnormally chromatic entity in The Colour Out of Space being the only one of the lot which I take any pride in.

Black is a colour of power and strength.

The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.

astonishing splashes of colour

When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.

I've always been into dark colours.

Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

Colour itself is a degree of darkness.

I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour.

I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work.

Trust your feelings entirely about colour, and then, even if you arrive at no infallible colour theory, you will at least have the credit of having your own colour sense.

Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.