Colour Quotes

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Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright… — Ann Demeulemeester
I made my new album 'Colour Me Free!' in a week with my own money. — Joss Stone
Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with… — Maurice Denis
Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint… — Camille Pissarro
The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour. — Odilon Redon
Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple. — Henri Matisse
The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer. — George Eliot
The voice is certainly important and you can hear if it's beautiful or not, it's the gods who decide; it's more a question of what… — Cecilia Bartoli
Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not....All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue… — Yves Klein
Comrade Blade Nzimande is complaining that EFF stole the â€˜red colourâ€™, he does not have a copyright on the â€˜red colourâ€™. Thereâ€™s nothing we can… — Julius Malema
The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I have… — Anthony Burgess
Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be… — Edward Weston
Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as… — Angela Carter
I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to… — W G Sebald
The Olympic flag [] has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red []. This design is… — Pierre de Coubertin
More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's feelings and reactions… — Sebastiao Salgado
It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour. — Winslow Homer
In practice it is possible to determine directly the skin colour and hence the ethnic affiliations of the ancient Egyptians by microscopic analysis in the… — Cheikh Anta Diop
We get used to a certain kind of colour of form or format, and it's acceptable. And to puncture that is sticking your neck out… — Lee Krasner

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