Colours Quotes

286 quotes by 237 authors

Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death. — Emil Nolde
If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of the… — Thomas Young
I was walking along a road one evening â€“ on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down… — Edvard Munch
Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright… — Ann Demeulemeester
Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with… — Maurice Denis
Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple. — Henri Matisse
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
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
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
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
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
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
As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the… — Eberhard Weber
One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the colours of the… — Jean-Louis Gassee
Nail the colours to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and, therefore, that is what we must do, and do it now.… — Charles Studd
A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you… — Elizabeth Hay
In my soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colours of a rainbow. — Unknown Author

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