Colour Quotes

Maroon is my favourite colour.

— Sushma Swaraj

Golden is a surface colour.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Skin the colour of chestnuts”

— Bernard Cornwell

Colour can raise the dead.

— Iris Apfel

“Must colour change?”

— Ronald Firbank

“Colour and I are one.”

— Paul Klee

“Colours are life.”

— Chuma Nwokolo

All color is no color.

— Kenneth Clark

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

— Edward Coke

“And she was colour. All the colour he had.”

— Fredrik Backman

Any colour - so long as it's black.

— Henry Ford

On the prairie one can see the colour of the air.

— Emily Murphy

White is a happy colour, I love it.

— Simi Garewal

Colour is the soul of Nature and of the entire cosmos...

— Rudolf Steiner

We're all people, no matter what colour.

— Letitia Wright

I just love candles... the colour, the glow, the light.

— Dimple Kapadia

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

— Carolina Herrera

Fruit... it's just God showing off. "Look at all the colours I know!"

— Dylan Moran

You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.

— Allan Kaprow

Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

— Abdus Salam

I might not be your favourite colour, but you'll surely need me to perfect your paint and make a cute image.

— Blaze Olamiday

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

— Rumi

Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.

— Bill Barich

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

However exquisite the contours or the colours of clouds, trees, rivers or hills, may be in themselves, they must be sacrificed if…

— Walter J. Phillips

My words are little jars For you to take and put upon a shelf. Their shapes are quaint and beautiful, And they…

— Amy Lowell

Most of my monsters fail altogether to satisfy my sense of the cosmic - the abnormally chromatic entity in The Colour Out…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat…

— Maurice Denis

[The popular impression about some chemists is that] the aquafortis and the chlorine of the laboratories have as effectually bleached the poetry…

— George Wilson

If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably…

— E. J. Hughes

Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into…

— A. S. Byatt

Nail the colours to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and, therefore, that is what we must do, and…

— Charles Studd

I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in…

— Gerhard Richter

So quiet and subtle is the beauty of December that escapes the notice of many people their whole lives through. Colour gives…

— Flora Thompson

I often use colour to attack form, to break it down a little or begin to dissolve it. But I am not…

— David Batchelor

The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in…

— John Singer Sargent

I tried to get the word out to people who are information hubs in their communities, because they could propagate the call…

— Nalo Hopkinson

the rain is coming. little sister, the night broke. the thunder cracked my brain finally. the rain is coming, i promise you.…

— Francesca Lia Block

A thousand trees are seen towards heaven rising, With beautiful and sweetly-scented apples; The orange, wearing on its lovely fruit The colour…

— Luis de Camoes

When I hit 16, I got a scooter to ride to school. It was bright pink, and I saw on the ownership…

— Thomas Sangster