Colour Quotes · Page 12

Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.

— Rumer Godden

Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.

— Samuel Johnson

Theosophy, on earth, is like the white ray of the spectrum, and each religion only one of the seven colours.

— H. P. Blavatsky

It is success that colours all in life, Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest.

— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

I was just a huge fan of Blur, Suede, Elastica and Pulp, of course, even Menswear and Ocean Colour Scene.

— Devendra Banhart

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in…

— William Shakespeare

I know there are girls of colour out there who have felt the same as me.

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

— Billy Gibbons

I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting…

— Kim Hunter

I'm definitely not gonna make a joke about separating the whites and colours, so don't try to make me. So instead, I'll…

— Toby Turner

I don't really need to be inspired by literature though. At the end of the day it's colour and imagery moved around…

— Danny Fox

I don't work from drawings and colour sketches into a final painting. Painting, I think, today - the more immediate, the more…

— Jackson Pollock

In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise…

— Frank Ocean

People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about man’s past…the past shows clearly that we…

— Louis Leakey

I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to…

— Francis Bacon

“Wear red and just be silent, don’t even whisper by yourself; you will see that you will be heard easily because red…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Lilacs, False Blue, White, Purple, Colour of lilac, Your great puffs of flowers Are everywhere in this my New England ... Lilacs…

— Amy Lowell

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or…

— Virginia Woolf

The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse…

— Germaine Greer

Here's how the people live here, in big house-shaped boxes to keep off 'rain' and 'snow,' holes cut in the sides so…

— Richard Bach

The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them...…

— Alexander Calder

We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they…

— Thomas Hardy

After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau…

— Susanna Clarke

I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour,…

— Bernard Berenson

I have been attacked and mistreated for my skin colour since I was a child.

— Daryl Davis

The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.

— Catherine Wilson

People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain...

— Paul Gauguin

Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

— Roberto Bolano

“...how a familiar room slowly changes colour as morning arrives.”

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

— Ezra Pound

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

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

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

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

— Danny John-Jules

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

— Charles Demuth

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

— Anish Kapoor