Colour Quotes · Page 11

With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe!

— William Falconer

I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged.

— Pauline Hanson

Once people start to realise that colour is just that, it's just a colour, then things got a bit smoother.

— Ricky Whittle

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

— Marie Corelli

I was just a huge fan of Blur, Suede, Elastica and Pulp, of course, even Menswear and Ocean Colour Scene.

— Devendra Banhart

It is success that colours all in life, Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest.

— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Theosophy, on earth, is like the white ray of the spectrum, and each religion only one of the seven colours.

— H. P. Blavatsky

Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.

— Samuel Johnson

In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races,…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the…

— El Greco

Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the…

— Paul Cezanne

A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to…

— Franklin Carmichael

You can go to church and sing a hymn, Judge me by the colour of my skin, You can live a lie…

— John Lennon

Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death.

— Emil Nolde

Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them,…

— Oscar Wilde

Music to me is a voice, my voice, it's my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what…

— St. Jerome

Seasons are like life. Some seasons are better than others. Some have more sun and rainbows. Others have storms and tornadoes. Some…

— Cathy Lamb

At first she dreamed of sheep, of going to school, of cats drinking milk. Little by little she dreamed of blue sheep,…

— Clarice Lispector

I take your hand, brother, so that you may go in peace. Will had opened his blue eyes that never lost their…

— Cassandra Clare

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

Every generation has its war. I have just been reminded of mine. It ended in 1989, 43 years after it began, the…

— Simon Jenkins

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

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

— Benjamin Banneker

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

— Rumer Godden

I do like to play around with colour, although day-to-day, I probably wear a lot of black.

— Ashley Roberts

In order to change a color it is enough to change the color of its background.

— Michel Eugene Chevreul

Kids are very visual, and they might not eat a food just because of its colour.

— Tom Aikens

But thou, my son, study to make prevail One colour in thy life, the hue of truth.

— Matthew Arnold

The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain...

— Paul Gauguin

Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

— Roberto Bolano

From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

— Ezra Pound

“...how a familiar room slowly changes colour as morning arrives.”

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.

— Catherine Wilson

People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I have been attacked and mistreated for my skin colour since I was a child.

— Daryl Davis

Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

— Billy Gibbons

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in…

— William Shakespeare

I know there are girls of colour out there who have felt the same as me.

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock