Colour Quotes

781 quotes by 574 authors

The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white is stays for ever, Their red it never dies; But Phyllida, my Phillida!… — Henry Austin Dobson
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of… — Edmund Burke
Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been… — Henri Matisse
All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands... — Georgia O'Keeffe
Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space. — Georges Braque
You put a blob of yellow here, and another at the further edge of the canvas: straight away a rapport is established between them. Colour… — Georges Braque
Colour acts simultaneously with form, but has nothing to do with form. — Georges Braque
But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour,… — Walter Pater
Color... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes. — Charles Baudelaire
Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets. — Charles Baudelaire
Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for… — Vincent Van Gogh
There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in blue, then you must put in yellow, and orange too, mustn't… — Vincent Van Gogh
Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be… — Vincent Van Gogh
I had a new idea in my head... this time it's just simply my bedroom, only here colour is to do everything, and, giving by… — Vincent Van Gogh
I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours. — Vincent Van Gogh
The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain... — Paul Gauguin
The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit. — Claude Monet
I haven't yet managed to capture the colour of this landscape; there are moments when I'm appalled at the colours I'm having to use, I'm… — Claude Monet
Water colours are wet colours in water. — David Hockney
Golden is a surface colour. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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