Colour Quotes · Page 14

I may not be your favourite colour but you may need me one day to complete your picture.

— Ace Kid

As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races…

— LL Cool J

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

— Anonymous

In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.

— John F. Carlson

Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave.

— William Shakespeare

Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.

— Dieter Rams

EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER IS NONE. YOUR LUCKY COLOUR IS DEAD. Motto: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON.

— Neil Gaiman

Ill-fitted T-shirts stretched over a gut are my pet hate. And if the colour's faded - ugh.

— Joanne Froggatt

It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and…

— Charles Hazlewood

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the…

— Winston Churchill

I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is…

— Benjamin Banneker

You'll get unsociable people whatever the nationality, colour, race or creed. I guess the British abroad have probably got the worst record…

— Ken Loach

“You are not only the solar spectrum with the seven luminous colours, but the sun himself, that illumines, warms, and revivifies! This…

— Juliette Drouet

My everyday look is foundaton, bronzer, mattifying powder, a bit of blush, mascara and a lip balm or lip colour - and…

— Michelle Keegan

Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

You put a blob of yellow here, and another at the further edge of the canvas: straight away a rapport is established…

— Georges Braque

The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Fine colour implies a unified relationship, in which each part is subordinate to the whole, and the transitions between them are felt…

— Kenneth Clark

Then, in my most careful handwriting, come all the details it would be a crime to forget. Lady licking Prim's cheek. My…

— Suzanne Collins

To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ... While all melts under our…

— Walter Pater

With lacquerware there is an extra beauty in that moment between removing the lid and lifting the bowl to the mouth, when…

— Junichiro Tanizaki

3D is great, but I just think of it as another tool, like colour or music or sound. It has the potential…

— Tim Burton

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

— Bill Vaughan

And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may…

— Geraldine Brooks

In my early work I didn't use much colour. I had no confidence about how I could do this.

— Michael Craig-Martin

When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a…

— Jeanette Winterson

All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.

— Victoria Wood

I am attracted to generic or 'industrial' colours; paper bag brown, file cabinet gray, industrial green, that kind of thing.

— Robert Mangold

Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form.

— Victor Vasarely

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

— Oscar Wilde

I'm what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.

— Martial

I tend to wear monochromatic outfits - all one colour from head to toe.

— Suzy Amis

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

— Gabriel Lippmann

It doesn't matter what colour you are ,your all beautiful inside and out .

— Melisa

Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it.

— George Orwell

The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter…

— Claude Monet

“Is it colour?’ ‘Oh yes.’ ‘You don’t let me down.You are my ambassador to pr0n, man.”

— Christopher Brookmyre

First the colours. Then the humans. That’s usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try.

— Markus Zusak

On the field I defend our colours, love our flag and sing our anthem. I could not be more Italian than I…

— Gianluigi Buffon

Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.

— Wilkie Collins