Colour Quotes

781 quotes by 574 authors

Democritus sometimes does away with what appears to the senses, and says that none of these appears according to truth but only according to opinion:… — Sextus Empiricus
In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether… — Hippocrates
The near end of the street was rather dark and had mostly vegetable shops. Abundance of vegetables - piles of white and green fennel, like… — D. H. Lawrence
Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one… — William Morris Hunt
Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called… — Ernst Mach
The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book… — John Singer Sargent
Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the… — Stan Brakhage
I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me. — Fay Godwin
Colour, Figure, Motion, Extension and the like, considered only so many Sensations in the Mind, are perfectly known, there being nothing in them which is… — George Berkeley
Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or… — Glenda Millard
Holy Moses, let us live in peace. Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease. There's a man over there, what's… — Elton John
When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not only by those… — Jupiter Hammon
I've always been into dark colours. — Jeremy Irvine
I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive. — Jennifer Morrison
There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey… — Peter James
Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew… — Anish Kapoor
Fill your plate with the colours of the rainbow. What pleases the eye, pleases the body. — Deepak Chopra
Had (I) been a member of a more popular race, I should have been inclined to yield to the temptation of depending upon my ancestry… — Booker T. Washington
Your background or colour has nothing to do with your progress, but your endowments are the determining factors — Michael Bassey
Achilles too staggered a moment. He felt his soul change colour. Blood pooled at his feet, and though he continued to stand upright and triumphant… — David Malouf

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