Colours Quotes

286 quotes by 237 authors

Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you… — Winston Churchill
Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on form and… — William Blake
The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled with an infinite number of images which are produced by the various bodies and colours… — Leonardo da Vinci
I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to… — Pablo Picasso
Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been… — Henri Matisse
All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands... — Georgia O'Keeffe
I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours. — Vincent Van Gogh
The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain... — Paul Gauguin
The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit. — Claude Monet
I haven't yet managed to capture the colour of this landscape; there are moments when I'm appalled at the colours I'm having to use, I'm… — Claude Monet
Water colours are wet colours in water. — David Hockney
With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black! — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
emotion that I experienced on first seeing the fresh paint come out of the tube... the impression of colours strewn over the palette: of colours… — Wassily Kandinsky
Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can suggest infinite distance. — Walter J. Phillips
However exquisite the contours or the colours of clouds, trees, rivers or hills, may be in themselves, they must be sacrificed if they do not… — Walter J. Phillips
The artist who pictures sounds as colours, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another... is not attending to what the… — Eric Maisel
Every means should be taken to attach the soldier to his colours. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which feed on leaves… — Erasmus Darwin
Music to me is a voice, my voice, it's my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas… — St. Jerome
Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they have ever been… — Joseph Plaskett

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