Colour Quotes

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Color is the fruit of life. — Guillaume Apollinaire
For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a… — Isaac Newton
For me, in those days, the great question was: Does God exist? Or doesn't God exist? Can we, by an attitude of faith, attain to… — Ingmar Bergman
An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour sensations.… — Paul Cezanne
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. — Paul Cezanne
Raphael and Titian seem to have looked at Nature for different purposes; they both had the power of extending their view to the whole; but… — Joshua Reynolds
Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle… — Joshua Reynolds
It is not by his mixing and choosing, but by the shapes of his colors, and the combination of those shapes, that we recognize the… — Clive Bell
The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color… — Eugene Delacroix
Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under… — Eugene Delacroix
Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot… — Eugene Delacroix
I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here… — Ralph Vaughan Williams
It seems obvious that colors vary according to lights, because when any color is placed in the shade, it appears to be different from the… — Leon Battista Alberti
With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black! — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
What do I want to express? The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or… — Emily Carr
Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow in Indian miniatures.… — Derek Jarman
No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with. — John Singer Sargent
Heavens, how charming it is! There is now in the sky only the soft vaporous color of pale citron - the last reflection of the… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
I don't really like the autumn. For me it is the beginning of winter and I hate the winter. White, the colour of death. — Simon Schama
Black is a colour of power and strength. — Hayden Fry

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