Colour Quotes · Page 8

No one knows the colour of a flower till it is broken.

— Hilda Doolittle

cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.

— Khaled Hosseini

Life without dreams is like a rainbow without colours.

— Greyson Chance

“Lightning hides the colour of night”

— Munia Khan

I'm from east LA. I don't see colour.

— will.i.am

Colour is a creative element, not a trimming.

— Piet Zwart

“Lies only color the world black.”

— Anthony T. Hincks

Be Love & Let the Colour back into your Life.

— Ritu Ghatourey

All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands...

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.

— Roald Dahl

My home is in West Vancouver, B.C. My husband built it from drawings to design and colour.

— Erica Durance

I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.

— Fay Godwin

If there is inequality, and that equates with colour, then I'm going to deal with it.

— Forest Whitaker

I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.

— Joanne Harris

I don't really like the autumn. For me it is the beginning of winter and I hate the winter. White, the colour…

— Simon Schama

There's many ways you communicate. With colour, texture, sound... Even words can communicate.

— David Carson

A sculptor is supposed to be a dull dog anyway, so why should he not break out in colour sometimes, and in…

— Jacob Epstein

To dismiss basic contexts such as link colours, page layouts, navigation systems, and visual hierarchy as 'boring' or 'pedestrian' is akin to…

— Jeffrey Veen

Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use /…

— Walter Darby Bannard

If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its…

— Leonardo da Vinci

What passes relentlessly through the years is blood, and time; all the bitterness or warmth along the way is almost incidental. Even…

— Luke Davies

Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the…

— Neil Gaiman

Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers,…

— John Ruskin

Seeing a film at the cinema, or a DVD or whatever at home, your brain is really receptive to not only whether…

— Crispian Mills

I have scars on my hands from touching certain people...Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on…

— J. D. Salinger

... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly…

— Henry Walter Bates

Standing on the Moon looking back at Earth - this lovely place you just came from - you see all the colours,…

— Buzz Aldrin

We are fighting so that insults may no longer rule our countries, martyred and scorned for centuries, so that our peoples may…

— Amilcar Cabral

“The phrase and the day and the scene harmonized in a chord. Words. Was it their colours? He allowed them to glow…

— James Joyce

At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his…

— Ann Radcliffe

[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode… an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Love is no hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from…

— John Galsworthy

There are conservative people in all colours in America.

— Adepero Oduye

He flushed, the colour dark against his pale skin. 'I mean. Tessa Gray, will you do me the honour of becoming my…

— Cassandra Clare

Used throughout a room, orange can become surprisingly neutral, and yet it can be bright and mood-enhancing.

— Jonathan Adler

Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?

— Jay Asher

Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.

— Roma Tearne

I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Beetroot is a great salad ingredient, especially when still warm; the colour ain't bad, either.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

— Piet Mondrian