The first of all simple colours is White ... We shall set down White for the representative of light, without which no… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Black isn't something I became after a car crash that I've been dealing with ever since. I'd like the colour of my… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
Sometimes I will look away very quickly, and freeze frame that first impression, pleased with myself that I have outsmarted my own… — Catherine Taylor Copy Share Image
Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Seeing a film at the cinema, or a DVD or whatever at home, your brain is really receptive to not only whether… — Crispian Mills Copy Share Image
Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use /… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
What passes relentlessly through the years is blood, and time; all the bitterness or warmth along the way is almost incidental. Even… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
“Conversely, the red plant itself burns a brighter red when set off by the green than when it grows among its peers.… — Arthur Japin Copy Share Image
After all, in supporting phenomenal concepts I am in a sense siding with introspection against the more behaviourist Wittgensteinians. But even so… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
Subduing and subdued, the petty strife, Which clouds the colour of domestic life; The sober comfort, all the peace which springs From… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I often remember in this false, distorted way, and the memories are often cloaked in the colour of the sun. Sometimes I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
His markings, month by month, became more beautiful, lines of autumn bracken colours with shapes which reminded me of currents on a… — Derek Tangye Copy Share Image
We just worked hard to not just get things right and authentic, but also to make it consistent and visually right. For… — Lone Scherfig Copy Share Image
Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
To dismiss basic contexts such as link colours, page layouts, navigation systems, and visual hierarchy as 'boring' or 'pedestrian' is akin to… — Jeffrey Veen Copy Share Image
A sculptor is supposed to be a dull dog anyway, so why should he not break out in colour sometimes, and in… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
In 1982 I bought the newly released Makina Plaubel 55mm fixed-lens camera. With this shift from 35mm to 6 x 7, I… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter;… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
The water is this marvellous blue. It’s so blue that once you see it you realise you’ve never seen blue before. That… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
Water, whether still or in motion, has so great an attraction for the lover of nature, that the most beautiful landscape seems… — William Montagu-Pollock Copy Share Image
“I hear the question upon your lips: What is it to be a colour? Colour is the touch of the eye, music… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Like many musicians, I can hear the weight in the sound. Sound is matter. We speak of the colour of an instrument,… — Laurence Equilbey Copy Share Image
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Last comes the class of persons, of nervous organization and enfeebled vigour, whose sensual appetite craves highly seasoned dishes, men of a… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
I took a year of karate. It was like obligatory... every kid was taking like one year of karate and one year… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it's like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
Bear in mind that the children of life are the children of joy; that the lower animals are only unhappy when made… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
[...] a morass of despair violence death with a thin layer of glass spread upon the surface where Love, a tiny crab… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Had (I) been a member of a more popular race, I should have been inclined to yield to the temptation of depending… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
My art in the last period has all been in small format, but my paintings have become even deeper and more spiritual,… — Alexej von Jawlensky Copy Share Image
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