Colours Quotes

286 Colours quotes by 237 unique authors

Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory… — Paul Cezanne
There are conservative people in all colours in America. — Adepero Oduye
I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I… — Anthony Minghella
Based on mixtures of the three primary colours, along with black and white, I come up with a certain number of possible colours and, by… — Gerhard Richter
The truth... When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look out of the… — Gerhard Richter
The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In the canvases that… — Gerhard Richter
I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That… — Gerhard Richter
Turning to the colour-classification methodology: The starting point are the four pure colours red, yellow, green and blue; their in-between shades and scales of brightness… — Gerhard Richter
Well, the beginning is actually quite easy, because I can still be quite free about the way I handle things - colours, shapes. And so… — Gerhard Richter
For three days now this angel, almost too heavenly for earth has been my fiancée ... Life stands before me like an eternal spring with… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The near end of the street was rather dark and had mostly vegetable shops. Abundance of vegetables - piles of white and green fennel, like… — D. H. Lawrence
Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one… — William Morris Hunt
Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called… — Ernst Mach
I've always been into dark colours. — Jeremy Irvine
Fill your plate with the colours of the rainbow. What pleases the eye, pleases the body. — Deepak Chopra
When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours. — Natalia Vodianova
I'm definitely not gonna make a joke about separating the whites and colours, so don't try to make me. So instead, I'll just say something… — Toby Turner
The White Company offers its loyalists an altogether better, whiter world. The White people have edited out any colours that aren't white, off-white, milk chocolate,… — Peter York
His icebergs are strange monuments with a symbol embodied in their form and their colours. They do not freeze you when you look at them,… — J D Salinger
Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are colours in the… — Thomas B. Macaulay
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

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