I let myself go. I thought little of the houses and trees, but applied colour stripes and spots to the canvas... Within… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Life isn't always easy but so long as we have hope that we will find someone to help us through the darkness… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Roxane: His face is like yours, burning with spirit and imagination. He is proud and noble and young and fearless and beautiful-… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I loved playing [the Doctor], and taking part in the basic essence and message of the series which is, it's a short… — Christopher Eccleston Copy Share Image
I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If there's loads of material going by you don't notice the individual things quite so much. Also it really foregrounds the sonic… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
Turning to the colour-classification methodology: The starting point are the four pure colours red, yellow, green and blue; their in-between shades and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Since we can produce all types of light by means of hot bodies, we can ascribe, to the radiation in thermal equilibrium… — Wilhelm Wien Copy Share Image
Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Her fine high forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate… — Anchee Min Copy Share Image
When we talk of architecture, people usually think of something static; this is wrong. What we are thinking of is an architecture… — Carlo Carra Copy Share Image
I've dated some women who have turned me on to some funny things that are strange for men to actually do, but… — Ryan Seacrest Copy Share Image
I tell you, my friends,’ he said one day. ‘I tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment.… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In practice it is possible to determine directly the skin colour and hence the ethnic affiliations of the ancient Egyptians by microscopic… — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
And at that moment a wind came out of the northwest, and entered the woods and bared the golden branches, and danced… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ajax is a multicultural club, and we have found that many talented immigrant players quit when they reach puberty. So we wanted… — Johan Cruyff Copy Share Image
How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although… — John Keats Copy Share Image
In the studio, it took me a long time to work out how to make paintings that had the intensity that I… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
In their censures of luxury the fathers are extremely minute and circumstantial; and among the various articles which excite their pious indignation,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I suppose everybody has a mental picture of the days of the week, some seeing them as a circle, some as an… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and the overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colours… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“From around the corner's edge a grotesque light was trickling out, the first intimations of an ominous sunrise over a dark horizon.… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
The colour blue - that is my colour - and the colour blue means you have left the drabness of day-to-day reality… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
For me, in those days, the great question was: Does God exist? Or doesn't God exist? Can we, by an attitude of… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
The mountain trembled like an earthquake. Dust flew into the sky. And the rock turned dark red, like the color of blood'.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't think that we can figure out what is going on in conscious colour perception just by phenomenological introspection. We need… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenerey that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside-down. It colours your waking… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
Youngsters inspired by Maoism have taken the gun and are spilling blood on streets, but our land needs the colour of progress… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“Human colour is the colour I'm truly interested in, the colour of your humanity. May the size of your heart and the… — Salena Godden Copy Share Image
Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image