Colour Quotes

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My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour and space are… — Ralph Goings
The sky was the colour of sad weddings. — Scarlett Thomas
With the early prototypes, I held the phone to my ear and my ear [would] dial the number. You have to detect all sorts of… — Jonathan Ive
If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and the most difficult… — Asger Jorn
Colour is the skin of the world, — Sonia Delaunay
I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to man. But my… — Robert Owen
A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon… — Ernst Mach
I am attracted to generic or 'industrial' colours; paper bag brown, file cabinet gray, industrial green, that kind of thing. — Robert Mangold
With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour. — Theodore Gericault
People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about manâ€™s pastâ€¦the past shows clearly that we all have a… — Louis Leakey
Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour. — Dieter Rams
I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism… — Arvo Part
I think love is caramel. Sweet and fragant; always welcome. It is the gentle golden colour of a setting harvest sun; the warmth of a… — Jenny Colgan
The colour grey makes you feel uneasy, makes things seem complicated and hopeless, it upsets the notion of black and white. Good and evil? There… — Akif Pirincci
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate.… — Leslie Charteris
Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do… — Ruggiero Ricci
Racism is a disease in society. We're all equal. I don't care what their colour is, or religion. Just as long as they're human beings… — Mandawuy Yunupingu
There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked… — Silvia Cartwright
The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular sorts of entities.… — Alfred North Whitehead
Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the… — Okakura Kakuzo

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