Colour Quotes · Page 12

To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.

— William Blake

There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.

— Arnold Friberg

I have been allowed to inhabit different shades of human nature and different colours of truth indifferent circumstances.

— Tom Hiddleston

I grew out my armpit hair for the summer. It turns out my natural hair colour isn't blonde.

— Anna Faris

You can't pick and choose the rules depending on the colour of someone's skin. That is what the racists do.

— Kemi Badenoch

When I was a teenager, I experimented a lot with hair colour, and the result was just awful.

— Irina Shayk

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

— Lois Lowry

Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.

— Fernand Leger

There is one thing that is stronger than everything, and it is the colour of the shirt that you wear, and that…

— Vincent Kompany

I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on…

— Anonymous

emotion that I experienced on first seeing the fresh paint come out of the tube... the impression of colours strewn over the…

— Wassily Kandinsky

Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When…

— Cornelia Funke

They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but…

— Pablo Picasso

Racism is an attack on the very notion of the universality of human rights. It systematically denies certain people the enjoyment of…

— Irene Khan

In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also…

— Walter J. Phillips

If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do…

— Cyndi Lauper

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

One of the amazing things about Spider-Man is that you don’t see skin colour when he’s in the suit. You don’t see…

— Andrew Garfield

I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a…

— Gerhard Richter

I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its…

— Jean Rhys

I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust -…

— H. P. Lovecraft

At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

— Winston Churchill

Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.

— Paul Morand

I am the colour red, in a world of black and white and if you value your ability to breathe... Don't get…

— Bray Wyatt

Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Love and colour just like a same things coz after some time it get fed nd atlast desappear…

— Babloo

As a kid, I was called Tintin because of my hair colour and style.

— Ronan Keating

It doesnt matter of what colour you are as long as there is green clolur in your pocket.

— Vikrant Parsai

In my soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colours of a…

— Papiya Ghosh

The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

— George Eliot

Choosing colours should not be a gamble. It should be a conscious decision. Colours have a meaning and a function.

— Verner Panton

WHO TAUGHT YOU TO HATE THE TEXTURE OF YOUR HAIR? WHO TAUGHT YOU TO HATE THE COLOUR OF YOUR SKIN?...

— Malcolm X

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

— Edouard Manet

As far as I can tell most people in football do not take colour into account when judging people. I certainly don't.

— Neil Warnock

It's not like I see colours. It's just, for me, an incredibly strong association between music and colour.

— Maggie Rogers

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

— Isabel Allende

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

— Idries Shah