One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am attracted to generic or 'industrial' colours; paper bag brown, file cabinet gray, industrial green, that kind of thing. — Robert Mangold Copy Share Image
I'm what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have. — Martial Copy Share Image
Ill-fitted T-shirts stretched over a gut are my pet hate. And if the colour's faded - ugh. — Joanne Froggatt Copy Share Image
In my early work I didn't use much colour. I had no confidence about how I could do this. — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro. — Victoria Wood Copy Share Image
Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture… I am entirely independent for… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the… — Ron Moody Copy Share Image
Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and… — Asher Brown Durand Copy Share Image
Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I believe that one should not think too much about nature when painting, at least not during the painting's conception. The colour… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
“You said, ‘I’m going to leave him because my love for you makes any other life a lie.’ I’ve hidden those words… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The great hall was shimmering in light, sun streaming from the open windows, and ablaze with colour, the walls decorated with embroidered… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
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