Colour Quotes

781 quotes by 574 authors

Imagine a glorious full moon coming over the tops of the spruce, big and yellow, shedding a mysterious light on everything... the moonlight had colour,… — Arthur Lismer
Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force. When less color and less intense color is present, trace amounts and subtle differences become highly… — John Paul Caponigro
What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose its shape. — Jules Olitski
The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of different… — Alexander Calder
I only use three primaries, so the nice thing is I can't have favorite colors. — Chuck Close
I like to keep a uniform - wear a blazer, try to keep the same colour pants; very tailored, very fitted but still edgy. — Theophilus London
Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset? — Daniele Vare
Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the… — Marcus Aurelius
If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Broken crayons still colour the same — Trent Shelton
The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of… — Bill Vaughan
Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid. — Lucian Freud
I don't think people need to know what colour socks I'm wearing today; I don't think people need to know what shower gel I'm using.… — Noel Gallagher
I love pink - pink's my favourite. I hardly ever - weirdly - wear it, but I love the colour pink. — Ellie Goulding
I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll… — John Grisham
Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks! — Marie Corelli
Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and… — Leonardo da Vinci
The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats… — Leonardo da Vinci
When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for… — Beth Ditto
I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the… — John Dyer

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