Colour Quotes · Page 9

Flowers and flames. And color. Color as color, not as volume or light - only as color.

— Charles Demuth

Art is colourblind - the only colour thats meant to be in art is on the canvas.

— Danny John-Jules

I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.

— Edvard Munch

The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.

— Horace

I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow…

— Charli XCX

I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.

— John Dyer

Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

— Charles Baudelaire

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

— Elizabeth Bowen

One can derive the same fun from print-making as from making mud pies and great subtlety can be achieved through the use…

— Ralph Steadman

Each day brings its own colours to be chosen, mixed, pigments of joy, happy moments, smiles and laughter… And which will you…

— John McLeod

When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would…

— Damien Hirst

I sometimes wish taste wasn't ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour…

— Jonny Greenwood

Someone who is incapable of drawing, and cannot master line or colour perspective can always express themselves in some form of abstraction.

— Hans Werner Henze

“What is a colour when death comes to call upon the black man and also pays a visit to his neighbour who…

— Eugenie Laverne Mitchell

I remember the good evenings I have fished, even the ones that realised material hopes not by the fish that came to…

— Roderick Haig-Brown

The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“You are not who you think you are. You are not who they want you to be. You are not merely your…

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

We can form no idea of the millions of pounds that are spent every year in the making of dress in the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight…

— Pablo Picasso

“you're the fly on the wall hearing all, seeing all ears of a wall hearing all the secrets perhaps you're the vines…

— Moonshine Noire

Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and…

— Michael Robotham

I had a new idea in my head... this time it's just simply my bedroom, only here colour is to do everything,…

— Vincent Van Gogh

As soon as I turned the key I saw it hanging, the color of fire and sunset. the colour of flamboyant flowers.…

— Jean Rhys

It was a gradual process, realising I was different. I remember at primary school getting a worksheet with sums printed on it.…

— Daniel Tammet

When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.

— Gabriel Lippmann

The sensation of colour cannot be accounted for by the physicist's objective picture of light-waves.

— Erwin Schrodinger

I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.

— Vincent Van Gogh

When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.

— Natalia Vodianova

For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.

— Leonardo da Vinci

It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent.

— George Eliot

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.

— Marcus Aurelius

Brown is definitely my colour. I like it's understated drabness.

— Sean Lock

I only use three primaries, so the nice thing is I can't have favorite colors.

— Chuck Close

I wear a lot of colour but I always wish I was more chic and Parisian.

— Amelia Dimoldenberg

It doesn't matter who you are, what colour you are, you should all be treated the same, all equal.

— Callum Hudson-Odoi

I'm determined to not let my skin colour or the fact that I come from Africa be a hindrance.

— Oti Mabuse

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

— Suzi Quatro

I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else.

— Mark Rothko

Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life

— Fernand Leger

I think if you're going to wear a red lip, you don't want it wearing you, so it's about finding the right…

— Cate Blanchett