Colour Quotes

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Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and… — Walter J. Phillips
Many rules for the creation of colour schemes have been published in recent years, but, while they are popular in commercial studies, I know of… — Walter J. Phillips
However exquisite the contours or the colours of clouds, trees, rivers or hills, may be in themselves, they must be sacrificed if they do not… — Walter J. Phillips
The artist who pictures sounds as colours, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another... is not attending to what the… — Eric Maisel
In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas. — John F. Carlson
Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red, white, and blue… — John F. Carlson
A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any 'story'… — John F. Carlson
The eye and soul are caressed in the contemplation of form and colour. The subtle changes of colour over a surface - transitions that are… — John F. Carlson
Trust your feelings entirely about colour, and then, even if you arrive at no infallible colour theory, you will at least have the credit of… — John F. Carlson
Used throughout a room, orange can become surprisingly neutral, and yet it can be bright and mood-enhancing. — Jonathan Adler
Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's just the opposite.… — Pierre Alechinsky
Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name… — Walter Darby Bannard
I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition. — E. J. Hughes
If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all… — E. J. Hughes
Every means should be taken to attach the soldier to his colours. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which feed on leaves… — Erasmus Darwin
Music to me is a voice, my voice, it's my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas… — St. Jerome
I want to get all the nations of the world together, it doesn't matter what colour or creed, and I want to sit them down… — Ricky Gervais
With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album. — Dave Grohl
Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they have ever been… — Joseph Plaskett

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