Colour Quotes · Page 13

It almost always happens that true, but exaggerated, coloring is more agreeable than absolute coloring.

— Michel Eugene Chevreul

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

— Henry Ford

The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Black is always elegant. It is the most complete colour in the whole world, made of all the colours in the palette.

— Riccardo Tisci

When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing.

— Charles D. Broad

I testify to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven and walls of colour, the colonnades of jasper.

— Hilda Doolittle

the colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.

— Claude Debussy

“When you do something good for the people, you give a nice colour to the pale world!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we're wearing - if it's red top, white…

— Wayne Rooney

“Don't go in for the "yellowish" if what you need is "yellow". The attitude called precision is the quality that remarks the…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit…

— Alice Meynell

I don't even know what my natural colour is. Natural? What is natural? What is that? I do not believe in totally…

— Donatella Versace

Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had…

— Charles Dickens

Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I don't want any colour to be noticeable... I don't want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent...…

— Lucian Freud

The truth... When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look…

— Gerhard Richter

I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

The orthodox view of colour experience assumes that, when we see a colour difference between two surfaces viewed side-by-side, this is because…

— David Papineau

If there's a message to pass to people, I'd say that it's normal to be different from others, it's good to differ…

— Johnny Depp

A beautiful feature in the colour wood-cut, and one unique in printing, is colour gradation... Two brushes are sometimes used, one charged…

— Walter J. Phillips

If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different…

— Thomas Young

Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not…All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or…

— Yves Klein

When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned…

— Jeanette Winterson

What matter the colour of the collar around a man's neck, if the chains linked to them were identical?

— Steven Erikson

I don't really like the autumn. For me it is the beginning of winter and I hate the winter. White, the colour…

— Simon Schama

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

— Joanne Harris

If there is inequality, and that equates with colour, then I'm going to deal with it.

— Forest Whitaker

Cram nailed his colours to the mast and threw down the Great Pretender

— Ron Pickering

“My world was the size of a crayon box, and it took every colour to draw her”

— Sarah Kay

Beetroot is a great salad ingredient, especially when still warm; the colour ain't bad, either.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

— Piet Mondrian

Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?

— Jay Asher

Used throughout a room, orange can become surprisingly neutral, and yet it can be bright and mood-enhancing.

— Jonathan Adler

Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.

— Roma Tearne

I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.

— Jorge Luis Borges

There's many ways you communicate. With colour, texture, sound... Even words can communicate.

— David Carson

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

— Cassandra Clare

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

— Nelson Mandela

When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.

— Albert Camus