Colours Quotes

286 Colours quotes by 237 unique authors

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
Black is always elegant. It is the most complete colour in the whole world, made of all the colours in the palette. — Riccardo Tisci
I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of breaking down and… — Christina Hendricks
I love jell-o. I love the way it comes in rainbow colours, wiggles and jiggles and looks like brains. — Megan McDonald
I transmit astral plane harmonies through my brushes into the physical plane. These otherworld colours are reflected in the alphabet of nature, a grammar in… — Norval Morrisseau
I think love to another human can't be wrong in any way. And to show that by painting my nails in rainbow colours, is a… — Unknown Author
Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only… — David Hockney
For frequent tears have run; The colours from my life. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I'm not fighting with myself. Oh, my God. That's how I am. You know, the story of the hippo? The hippo comes to the monkey… — Marat Safin
Here's how the people live here, in big house-shaped boxes to keep off 'rain' and 'snow,' holes cut in the sides so they can see… — Richard Bach
Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside-down. It colours your waking moments and fills… — Vikas Swarup
When your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of colours, indigo, red, green… — John O'Donohue
By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our… — John Milton
The effects of abuse are devastating and far-reaching. Domestic violence speaks many languages, has many colours and lives in many different communities. — Sandra Pupatello
I don't want any colour to be noticeable... I don't want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent... Full, saturated colours… — Lucian Freud
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 – 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

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