Colour Quotes · Page 10

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

— Georges Braque

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

— Oscar Wilde

In choosing a colour one must realize that it changes in different aspects.

— Nancy Lancaster

If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are.

— Martin Amis

“There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black — in itself.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Paul Cezanne

I love most things in my life. I feel it's important to try and live life through adventure, colour and love.

— Gemma Cairney

I have a Pomeranian dog named Nutmeg - a combination of the soccer move and the colour. It's perfect.

— Christine Sinclair

The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The black people's struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

If you look closely at any face, you'll start to see that different areas of the flesh tones are tinged with four…

— Doug Dawson

“The firelight danced on his mask, warming the gold, setting the emeralds glinting. Such colour and variation- colours I didn't know the…

— Sarah J. Maas

The stadium here in Munich is the best of the lot for me. It is absolutely fantastic, especially the way it lights…

— Claudia Schiffer

Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they…

— Joseph Plaskett

If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of…

— Anthony Burgess

The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror…

— Eugene Delacroix

Do not several sorts of Rays make Vibrations of several bignesses, which according to their bigness excite Sensations of several Colours, much…

— Isaac Newton

When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest…

— Rudyard Kipling

I let myself go. I thought little of the houses and trees, but applied colour stripes and spots to the canvas... Within…

— Wassily Kandinsky

when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and…

— Martin Amis

Pastoureau combines a charming, conversational tone with a haughtiness I found entirely endearing. A director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des…

— Sebastian Smee

Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in…

— John Lubbock

On a ruinous wall I came upon a poster dating from the previous year and announcing that ‘six handsome bulls’ would be…

— George Orwell

Democritus sometimes does away with what appears to the senses, and says that none of these appears according to truth but only…

— Sextus Empiricus

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

I might not be your favourite colour, but you'll surely need me to perfect your paint and make a cute image.

— Blaze Olamiday

Those loves which are for the sake of a colour are not love. In the end they are a disgrace.

— Rumi

Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.

— Bill Barich

Fruit... it's just God showing off. "Look at all the colours I know!"

— Dylan Moran

People get nervous accessorising, but there is nothing wrong with adding a belt or a pair of shoes in another colour.

— Carolina Herrera

Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

— Abdus Salam

You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.

— Allan Kaprow

There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.

— Freeman Patterson

The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.

— Tom Stoppard

Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

— Lucian Freud

If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.

— Arthur Smith

Color is something we see with our eyes, but love is something we see with our heart.

— Joan Walsh Anglund