Colour Quotes

781 Colour quotes by 574 unique authors

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 ‘red colour’, he does not have a copyright on the ‘red colour’. There’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
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 man’s past…the past shows clearly that we all have a… — Louis Leakey

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