Colour Quotes · Page 16

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

— Paul Cezanne

I made my new album 'Colour Me Free!' in a week with my own money.

— Joss Stone

“Some friends are like sunny days, with false flames, oozing from afar, coming near without a dime.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

If you're a woman of colour and you have any level of education, you have to adapt.

— Yvonne Orji

The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.

— Odilon Redon

There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

— Sun Tzu

With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.

— Dave Grohl

When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.

— Albert Camus

When all candles are out, all cats are grey, All things are then of one color, as who say. And this proverb…

— John Heywood

I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I…

— Naomi Campbell

I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of…

— Lynn Nottage

My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself…

— Annie Besant

When we were babies, mum had to dress one of us in one colour, like blue and green, and she'd put a…

— Benji Madden

Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will…

— James Clerk Maxwell

Who taught you to hate the color of your skin? Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught…

— Malcolm X

Through her, in microcosm, the wide earth sobbed. The starglobe sank in her; the colours faded. The death-dew rose and the wild…

— Mervyn Peake

“And as he spoke, like the flush creeping along the underside of a cloud at sunrise, the colour came back to her…

— C.S. Lewis

I want my street to be crazy, I want my avenues, shops and buildings, to enter into a crazy dance, and this…

— Jean Dubuffet

Many rules for the creation of colour schemes have been published in recent years, but, while they are popular in commercial studies,…

— Walter J. Phillips

I transmit astral plane harmonies through my brushes into the physical plane. These otherworld colours are reflected in the alphabet of nature,…

— Norval Morrisseau

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest,…

— Carl Maria von Weber

Fate, they say, fate- the clay that molds the events of your life, and it was the same fate that had thrown…

— Faraaz Kazi

I was trying to show colour, but I realized at the private view that the public were prisoners of a preconceived point…

— Yves Klein

Grey is my hair colour. I really can't see why I should change it.

— Mary Beard

His blue eyes were very dark...Will's were the colour of the sky just on the edge of the night...

— Cassandra Clare

Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art…

— Matthew Collings

Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about "welfare mothers" - a code phrase for people of colour.

— Adam Hochschild

I spend a lot of my time looking at blue, The colour of my room and my mood...

— Kate Bush

I have always liked black and white! It is simple and the colour of the piano.

— Hiromi

It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.

— Luke Treadaway

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

— A. S. Byatt

Anything can be any color at any time depending on what color everything else is at the time.

— Keith Crown

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

— Toru Takemitsu

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

— Brad Pitt

“Meaning is also a colour and that’s why there are many colours in the black and white photos!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

— George Santayana

Colour acts simultaneously with form, but has nothing to do with form.

— Georges Braque

With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

With dogs and people, it's love in big splashy colours. When you're involved with a cat, you're dealing in pastels.

— Louis J. Camuti