Colours Quotes

286 Colours quotes by 237 unique authors

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
The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of different… — Alexander Calder
Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset? — Daniele Vare
The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of… — Bill Vaughan
Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid. — Lucian Freud
I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the… — John Dyer
I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work. — John Dyer
When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use… — Ben Harper
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep. — Matthew Henry
As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours. — LL Cool J

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