Colour Quotes · Page 9

“My world was the size of a crayon box, and it took every colour to draw her”

— Sarah Kay

Cram nailed his colours to the mast and threw down the Great Pretender

— Ron Pickering

I don't appreciate people who discriminate on the basis of colour.

— Tamannaah

You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.

— Virginia Woolf

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

— John Ruskin

“I hasten to sleep so that I might dream and colour my mind with a myriad of things.”

— Shaun Hick

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

— Albert Camus

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

— Nelson Mandela

The first of all simple colours is White ... We shall set down White for the representative of light, without which no…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I don't like when things don't match. I love some Eighties fashion, like Grace Jones but primary colours only work in certain…

— Kemp Muhl

Black isn't something I became after a car crash that I've been dealing with ever since. I'd like the colour of my…

— Michaela Coel

Sometimes I will look away very quickly, and freeze frame that first impression, pleased with myself that I have outsmarted my own…

— Catherine Taylor

I like extremely effeminate dogs like terriers or schnauzers. I make an exception for giant schnauzers and big poodles. Basically, I like…

— Jonathan Meades

It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as…

— Antoine Fuqua

There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in…

— J. G. Ballard

I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be…

— Anthony Horowitz

When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his…

— Mervyn Peake

From what has been said it is also evident, that the Whiteness of the Sun's Light is compounded all the Colours wherewith…

— Isaac Newton

Those who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in…

— Annie Besant

With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the…

— Jose Saramago

I can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it - but I can never be on the inside of it with…

— André Brink

“The perpetrator is a person. He’s got blood flowing in his or her veins. Does it matter if he or she is…

— S. A. David

“People usually associate the colour pink with weakness and naiveté; but I associate this colour with the most beautiful parts of the…

— C. JoyBell C

School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.

— Quentin Tarantino

Color... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes.

— Charles Baudelaire

I am not... totally unreceptive to colour providing it makes its appearance quietly, deferentially, and without undue fanfare.

— Fran Lebowitz

“The colour is terrible on her. She could have been dead for ten days. In the water.”

— Leanne Hall

If atheism is a religion, then off is a TV channel and bald is a hair colour.

— Hemant Mehta

In the bit of painting that I've done, I'm interested in colour and texture. I'm very interested in transparency.

— Stephen Hough

On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color.

— Robert Breault

You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.

— Anne Rice

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes…

— Yann Martel

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

— Lois Lowry

When I was a teenager, I experimented a lot with hair colour, and the result was just awful.

— Irina Shayk

You can't pick and choose the rules depending on the colour of someone's skin. That is what the racists do.

— Kemi Badenoch

I have been allowed to inhabit different shades of human nature and different colours of truth indifferent circumstances.

— Tom Hiddleston

I grew out my armpit hair for the summer. It turns out my natural hair colour isn't blonde.

— Anna Faris

There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.

— Arnold Friberg

To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.

— William Blake