Colour Quotes

781 Colour quotes by 574 unique authors

His markings, month by month, became more beautiful, lines of autumn bracken colours with shapes which reminded me of currents on a quiet sea. True… — Derek Tangye
The King saw them with no common satisfaction, expressing his desire in no particular to have yt Stellar fish engraven and printed. We wish very… — Unknown Author
By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention colour is colour.… — Democritus
I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is intended… — Jonathan Ive
The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and… — Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although I do not… — John Keats
The difference between me and a butterfly is that the butterfly looks at a flower with no purpose in mind but to sip nectar. The… — Densey Clyne
The beauty of the air, from the air... You haven't seen Australia unless you see it from the air. The coastline, the colours of the… — Nancy Bird Walton
Fred didn't have a favourite colour. He was just pleased that he could see all of the colours in the colour chart. That was his… — Gabi Hollows
The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those loves which are for the sake of a colour are not love. In the end they are a disgrace. — Unknown Author
A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a… — E. M. Forster
Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust. — William Shakespeare
Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people, our Empire, and… — Winston Churchill
Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find his highest enjoyment… — Robert Owen
Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know… — Gladys Taber
But it will be found... that one universal law prevails in all these phenomena. Where two portions of the same light arrive in the eye… — Thomas Young
I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of… — Bernard Berenson
His eyes were rolling in their sockets, and his face had taken on the colour and expression of a devout tomato. I could see he… — P.G. Wodehouse
Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life. — Oscar Wilde
You sit better on a colour that you like — Verner Panton
Choosing colours should not be a gamble. It should be a conscious decision. Colours have a meaning and a function. — Verner Panton
The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid… — Verner Panton
One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes. — Verner Panton

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