While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas. — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
For a long time I limited myself to one colour—as a form of discipline. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I may not be your favourite colour but you may need me one day to complete your picture. — Ace Kid Copy Share Image
As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races… — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
I feel in colour, strong tones that I hue down for the comfort of the pastelly inclined. Beige and magnolia and a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force. When less color and less intense color is present, trace amounts and subtle… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
When you grow up in that (multi-ethnic) environment, you see the world differently. Being a mixed-race child, I didn't always see colour… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist... If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference.… — Gabriel Lippmann Copy Share Image
I believe that here in South Africa, with all our diversities of colour and race; we will show the world a new… — Albert Lutuli Copy Share Image
Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material (butterfly wings around 1955, fh) - the constituent parts of which remain… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
What man so wise, what earthly wit so ware, As to descry the crafty cunning train, By which deceit doth mask in… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
The design of the gum is expressed in the flow of it trunk and limbs, and the design of the European tree… — Hans Heysen Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger… he is pure air and fire; and the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For a while Australians were desperately trying to be cosmopolitan. I think it is a pointless exercise. Australian novels are those rooted… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence. — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black! — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things. — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Every means should be taken to attach the soldier to his colours. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours. — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings. — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour. — Horace Copy Share Image
Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better colour. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
New York gives us a wide colour palette to cook from. We have cuisines from around the world, and that lets us… — David Chang Copy Share Image
Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with. — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
See what you can do with your daring with color and your ignorance mixed with it. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
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