Colour Quotes

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My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and… — Ron Moody
When I think of flavours, I think colour, so lemon should be yellow and orange is orange. — Dylan Lauren
There are conservative people in all colours in America. — Adepero Oduye
Jake Green isn't just Jake Green. Jake represents all of us. The colour green is the central column of the spectrum and the name Jake… — Guy Ritchie
Colour is not the issue in America; class is. — Gil Scott-Heron
People always say you can't do a red lip if you have red hair but I've never shied away from it. I think you can… — Kate Walsh
Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever torn himself from… — Ray Bradbury
I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I… — Anthony Minghella
When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter yolks than those… — Cennino Cennini
Based on mixtures of the three primary colours, along with black and white, I come up with a certain number of possible colours and, by… — Gerhard Richter
Grey. It makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity… — Gerhard Richter
To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and the… — Gerhard Richter
The truth... When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look out of the… — Gerhard Richter
The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In the canvases that… — Gerhard Richter
I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That… — Gerhard Richter
The grey is certainly inspired by the photo-paintings, and, of course, it's related to the fact that I think grey is an important colour -… — Gerhard Richter
I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in 1974 with a… — Gerhard Richter
Turning to the colour-classification methodology: The starting point are the four pure colours red, yellow, green and blue; their in-between shades and scales of brightness… — Gerhard Richter
Well, the beginning is actually quite easy, because I can still be quite free about the way I handle things - colours, shapes. And so… — Gerhard Richter
For three days now this angel, almost too heavenly for earth has been my fiancÃ©e ... Life stands before me like an eternal spring with… — Carl Friedrich Gauss

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