Colour famous quotes

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
-- A. S. Byatt

#Real #Thinking #Colour

You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.
-- Allan Kaprow

#Gum #Teach #Colour

You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.
-- Anne Rice

#Mind #Finest #Colour

There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.
-- Arnold Friberg

#Paint #Colour

Black is the queen of colours.
-- Auguste Rodin

#Queens #Black #Colour

Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.
-- Bill Barich

#Art #Fishing #Colour

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.
-- Charles Dickens

#Mind #Colour #New Thought

Put variety in white.
-- Charles Webster Hawthorne

#White #Colour #Variety

The heart never knows the colour of the skin
-- Chief Dan George

#Heart #Skins #Colour

When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!
-- Coco Chanel

#Wearing Black #Black #Colour

Chromophobia is perhaps only chromophilia without the colour.
-- David Batchelor

#Colour

Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.
-- Dieter Rams

#Colour

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
-- Edouard Manet

#Lines #Colour

Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
-- Edwin Land

#Causes #Colour #Consequence

I love pink - pink's my favourite. I hardly ever - weirdly - wear it, but I love the colour pink.
-- Ellie Goulding

#Favourite #Colour

Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
-- Erica Jong

#Sex #Soul #Colour

Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it.
-- George Orwell

#Discrimination #Colour #Instance

Colour acts simultaneously with form, but has nothing to do with form.
-- Georges Braque

#Form #Colour

Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.
-- Georges Braque

#Space #Giving #Colour

Life without dreams is like a rainbow without colours.
-- Greyson Chance

#Dream #Rainbow #Colour

Color is the fruit of life.
-- Guillaume Apollinaire

#Color #Fruit #Colour

Think colour! Know how to imagine it!
-- Gustave Moreau

#Thinking #Imagine #Colour

Black is a colour of power and strength.
-- Hayden Fry

#Strength #Black #Colour

Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours the surrounding space with the complementary.
-- Henri Matisse

#Space #Canvas #Colour

The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.
-- Horace

#Laughter #Stolen #Colour

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.
-- Idries Shah

#Glasses #Water #Colour

I've always been into dark colours.
-- Jeremy Irvine

#Dark #Colour

Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good.
-- Joan Crawford

#Feel Good #Colour #Make You Feel Good

I have an intensive hatred for discrimination based on colour.
-- John Diefenbaker

#Hatred #Discrimination #Colour

Anything can be any color at any time depending on what color everything else is at the time.
-- Keith Crown

#Color #Colour

Hair is the greatest thing to experiment with because it's not permanent. If I didn't like my colour, I'd just change it.
-- Linda Evangelista

#Hair #Colour #Experiments

I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else.
-- Mark Rothko

#Form #Not Interested #Colour

I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white - I like the abstraction of it.
-- Mary Ellen Mark

#Black And White #Sometimes #Colour

Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings.
-- Matthew Collings

#Art #Makers #Colour

Blushing is the colour of virtue.
-- Matthew Henry

#Virtue #Blushing #Colour

Your background or colour has nothing to do with your progress, but your endowments are the determining factors
-- Michael Bassey

#Progress #Backgrounds #Colour

It almost always happens that true, but exaggerated, coloring is more agreeable than absolute coloring.
-- Michel Eugene Chevreul

#Color #Colour

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.
-- Murasaki Shikibu

#World #Another World #Colour

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Drawing #Colour

I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged.
-- Pauline Hanson

#Believe #Skins #Colour

No canvas absorbs colour like memory.
-- Robert Aris Willmott

#Memories #Canvas #Colour

Having a favourite colour is like having a favourite lung.
-- Sara Genn

#Favourite #Colour

I can hide as much as I want in my colours
-- Sara Genn

#Want #Colour

Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint.
-- Sara Genn

#Vibrancy #Restraint #Colour

The sky was the colour of sad weddings.
-- Scarlett Thomas

#Sky #Colour

Colour is the skin of the world,
-- Sonia Delaunay

#Skins #World #Colour

She had put on make-up in a colour scheme that indicated she might be colourblind.
-- Steig Larsson

#Might #Schemes #Colour

Colours are what drive me most strongly.
-- Stevie Smith

#Colour

I tend to wear monochromatic outfits - all one colour from head to toe.
-- Suzy Amis

#Toes #Outfits #Colour

Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.
-- Syd Barrett

#Rose #Colour

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 like “BOOGABOOGABOOGADOBLUH I'M A PERSON BLUHBLUHBLGUHGHGGHGH”. That appeals to everybody.
-- Toby Turner

#Trying #Appeals #Colour

Broken crayons still colour the same
-- Trent Shelton

#Broken #Crayon #Colour

One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes.
-- Verner Panton

#Likes #Colour

You sit better on a colour that you like
-- Verner Panton

#Colour

All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.
-- Victoria Wood

#Want #Thirteen #Colour

It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
-- Viola Davis

#People #Complicated #Colour

I'm very interested in how colour and shape are perceived.
-- Wanda Koop

#Shapes #Interest #Colour

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.
-- Wassily Kandinsky

#Soul #Influence #Colour

I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.
-- Quentin S. Crisp

#Age #Born #Colour

On the prairie one can see the colour of the air.
-- Emily Murphy

#Air #Prairie #Colour

Cram nailed his colours to the mast and threw down the Great Pretender
-- Ron Pickering

#Inspirational #Funny #Colour

Use the worst colour you can find in each place - it usually is the best.
-- Roy Lichtenstein

#Use #Worst #Colour

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
-- Roy Lichtenstein

#Color #Painting #Colour

I don't know my natural hair colour. I haven't seen it for a while.
-- Tamzin Outhwaite

#Hair #Natural #Colour

Jack Cardiff - the greatest cameraman who ever worked in colour - was a lab boy to start with so he knew Technicolor from the inside out.
-- Thelma Schoonmaker

#Boys #Labs #Colour

Kids are very visual, and they might not eat a food just because of its colour.
-- Tom Aikens

#Kids #Might #Colour

All color is no color.
-- Kenneth Clark

#Color #Colour