quotes about Colour
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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
-- A. S. ByattSource : "AS Byatt: woman of letters and ...science!". "All In The Mind" with Antonia Byatt, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2010.
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You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.
-- Allan Kaprow -
You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.
-- Anne Rice -
There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.
-- Arnold Friberg -
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Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.
-- Bill Barich -
New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.
-- Charles Dickens -
Put variety in white.
-- Charles Webster HawthorneSource : Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press
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The heart never knows the colour of the skin
-- Chief Dan GeorgeSource : 1974 My Heart Soars.
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When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!
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Chromophobia is perhaps only chromophilia without the colour.
-- David BatchelorSource : David Batchelor (2000). “Chromophobia”, p.71, Reaktion Books
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Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.
-- Dieter RamsSource : "Dieter Rams at home, 2004". Interview with Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. September 29, 2010.
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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
-- Edouard Manet -
Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
-- Edwin Land -
I love pink - pink's my favourite. I hardly ever - weirdly - wear it, but I love the colour pink.
-- Ellie Goulding -
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Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it.
-- George Orwell -
Colour acts simultaneously with form, but has nothing to do with form.
-- Georges Braque -
Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.
-- Georges Braque -
Life without dreams is like a rainbow without colours.
-- Greyson Chance -
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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 -
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The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.
-- Horace -
The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.
-- Idries Shah -
Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good.
-- Joan Crawford -
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I have an intensive hatred for discrimination based on colour.
-- John DiefenbakerSource : Maclean's, March 29, 1958.
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Anything can be any color at any time depending on what color everything else is at the time.
-- Keith CrownSource : Keith Crown (1967). “Crown: Keith Crown, Painter : University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 30-July 21, 1967”
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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 -
I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else.
-- Mark Rothko -
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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 -
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 -
Your background or colour has nothing to do with your progress, but your endowments are the determining factors
-- Michael Bassey -
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It almost always happens that true, but exaggerated, coloring is more agreeable than absolute coloring.
-- Michel Eugene Chevreul -
Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.
-- Murasaki ShikibuSource : Murasaki Shikibu (1936*). “The tale of Genji: a novel”
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
-- Paul Cezanne -
I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged.
-- Pauline HansonSource : "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.
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No canvas absorbs colour like memory.
-- Robert Aris WillmottSource : Robert Aris Willmott (1852). “A Journal of Summer Time in the Country”, p.188
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Having a favourite colour is like having a favourite lung.
-- Sara Genn -
Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint.
-- Sara Genn -
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She had put on make-up in a colour scheme that indicated she might be colourblind.
-- Steig Larsson -
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I tend to wear monochromatic outfits - all one colour from head to toe.
-- Suzy Amis -
Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.
-- Syd BarrettSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 BLUHBLUHBLGUHGHGGHGHâ€. That appeals to everybody.
-- Toby Turner -
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One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes.
-- Verner Panton -
All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.
-- Victoria WoodSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
-- Viola Davis -
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I'm very interested in how colour and shape are perceived.
-- Wanda Koop -
Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.
-- Wassily KandinskySource : Wassily Kandinsky (1914). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.25, Courier Corporation
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I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.
-- Quentin S. Crisp -
On the prairie one can see the colour of the air.
-- Emily Murphy -
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Cram nailed his colours to the mast and threw down the Great Pretender
-- Ron Pickering -
Use the worst colour you can find in each place - it usually is the best.
-- Roy Lichtenstein -
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
-- Roy Lichtenstein -
I don't know my natural hair colour. I haven't seen it for a while.
-- Tamzin Outhwaite -
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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 SchoonmakerSource : Source: www.fluxmagazine.com
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Kids are very visual, and they might not eat a food just because of its colour.
-- Tom Aikens