Colours Quotes

286 Colours quotes by 237 unique authors

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose. — Plato
Do not the Rays which differ in Refrangibility differ also in Flexibity; and are they not by their different Inflexions separated from one another, so… — Isaac Newton
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people...Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. Other things,… — J D Salinger
Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common. — Billy Gibbons
When there is a fountain of colours, they add charm to your life. In ignorance, emotions are a bother; in knowledge, the same emotions add… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Thinking... is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear… — Rudolf Steiner
For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground. — Leonardo da Vinci
Wherever you are in the world, there's always something about the Australian light. There's something about the sharpness of it, something about the clarity of… — Ken Done
Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good. — Joan Crawford
I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown. — Charli XCX
If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope. — Marc Chagall
Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art. — Bill Barich
One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And… — Winston Churchill
I was shown a picture by Cézanne of a blank wall of a house, which he had made instinct with the most delicate lights and… — Winston Churchill
Through her, in microcosm, the wide earth sobbed. The starglobe sank in her; the colours faded. The death-dew rose and the wild birds in her… — Mervyn Peake
You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the American painters. Behind… — Mark Rothko
I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours. — Sally Phillips
There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every colour holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which… — Emil Nolde
I am trying to heighten my feeling for the organic rhythm in all things, trying to establish a pantheistic contact with the tremor and flow… — Franz Marc
Collage – SS13 offers a very controlled and pure do-it-yourself attitude. The collection shows a juxtaposition of very different materials, prints and colours, therefore giving… — Raf Simons
I like to look put together without trying too hard. I don't want to look as if God's made another rainbow - I prefer muted,… — Anne Robinson
I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the… — Mark Millar
Every generation has its war. I have just been reminded of mine. It ended in 1989, 43 years after it began, the longest war Britain… — Simon Jenkins
It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of proverbs. In the… — Desiderius Erasmus
[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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