Colour Quotes

781 Colour quotes by 574 unique authors

There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen. — Sun Tzu
I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. — Robert Bridges
To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed. — Gertrude Jekyll
Structure is the most important component in a successful planting; colour is important too but it is a secondary consideration. — Piet Oudolf
Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of… — Marcel Proust
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
With dogs and people, it's love in big splashy colours. When you're involved with a cat, you're dealing in pastels. — Louis J. Camuti
Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, To be… — William Shakespeare
The Earth school is not a concept. It is an an ongoing 3-dimesional, full colour, hi-fidelity, interactive multi-media experience that does not end until your… — Gary Zukav
About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some one saying that… — Charles Darwin
I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense… — Benjamin Banneker
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of… — George Santayana
We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of… — Tim Berners-Lee
No canvas absorbs colour like memory. — Robert Aris Willmott
What more delightsome than an infinite varietie of sweet smelling flowers? decking with sundry colours the greene mantle of the Earth, the universall Mother of… — William Lawson
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a… — G. H. Hardy
I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked. — Edvard Munch
He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my… — Irving Stone
The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying… — Isabella Beeton
I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying, Let her be. She got… — Sonia Sanchez
Those who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in life and honoured… — Annie Besant
Colour is everything, black and white is more. — Dominic Rouse
Colours shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow… — Haruki Murakami
You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life. — Virginia Woolf

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