Colour Quotes · Page 15

Rainthat is having no fragnance, colour, but when it come, work as a nector.

— Bidisha Das

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?

— Keith Henson

There is an investment of your own life experience in something as innocent as colour.

— Stephen De Staebler

I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

— Josef Albers

Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.

— Anonymous

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

— Walter Savage Landor

Black is no longer dangerous. So what's dangerous now? - colour.

— Gerard Way

I can only say that sometimes skin colour does make a difference.

— Amir Khan

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

— Amy Lowell

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

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

The Egyptians would sacrifice red-headed men on the tomb of Osiris because red was the colour associated with Set, the Egyptian version…

— David Icke

Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms…

— David Hockney

Since we can produce all types of light by means of hot bodies, we can ascribe, to the radiation in thermal equilibrium…

— Wilhelm Wien

Turning to the colour-classification methodology: The starting point are the four pure colours red, yellow, green and blue; their in-between shades and…

— Gerhard Richter

I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre…

— Simone de Beauvoir

If there's loads of material going by you don't notice the individual things quite so much. Also it really foregrounds the sonic…

— Max Richter

It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted…

— Anna Quindlen

Roxane: His face is like yours, burning with spirit and imagination. He is proud and noble and young and fearless and beautiful-…

— Edmond Rostand

I loved playing [the Doctor], and taking part in the basic essence and message of the series which is, it's a short…

— Christopher Eccleston

I like to keep a uniform - wear a blazer, try to keep the same colour pants; very tailored, very fitted but…

— Theophilus London

If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and…

— Marc Chagall

“Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life." "You”

— Oscar Wilde

The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.

— Coco Chanel

My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely…

— Nelson Mandela

I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.

— Fay Godwin

My home is in West Vancouver, B.C. My husband built it from drawings to design and colour.

— Erica Durance

Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.

— Roald Dahl

All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands...

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.

— Derek Jarman

A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.

— Charlotte Bronte

“I try to grasp the colour of my blood and all I feel is life slipping through the colourless veins.”

— Munia Khan

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.

— Seneca the Younger

And what colour do you suppose the inner depths of your soul are, Will Herondale?' 'Mauve,' said Will.

— Cassandra Clare

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

— Maxwell Bodenheim

For me, poetry is the colour of Elizabeth Taylor's eyes, or the pauses in Pinter's plays - only the pauses, not the…

— Roger Lewis