Coloured Quotes

97 quotes by 91 authors

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. — Paul Cezanne
Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long… — Jarvis Cocker
Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper set the clouds… — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm sick I'm black, when I… — Malcolm X
To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing a quality to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The flowers, the gorgeous, mystic multi-coloured flowers are not the flowers of life, but people, yes people are the true flowers of life, and it… — Lord Buckley
I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no… — Vera Brittain
Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven… — Steven Chu
The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New Orleans on tour… — Chuck Berry
Those who are incapable of attaining to supreme religious values include the black coloured people and those who resemble them in their climates. Their nature… — Maimonides
You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some… — Don Van Vliet
Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous… — Oswald Spengler
Perhaps we shall also have to hold in check other coloured peoples who will soon be in their certain prime, and thus preserve the world,… — Heinrich Himmler
The sea has now changed from its natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the… — George Vancouver
Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange,… — H. Rider Haggard
The rigour of science requires that we distinguish well the undraped figure of Nature itself from the gay-coloured vesture with which we clothe her at… — Heinrich Hertz
Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since — Josephine Hart
With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop. — Mikhail Botvinnik
There are at present many Coloured men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and labourers, but real soldiers, having muskets… — Frederick Douglass
I immediately cotton on to the fact that intelligence thus lightly used, and one-upmanshipishly displayed, is a birthmark giving me a two-coloured face, is a… — Hal Porter

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