Quotes and Sayings 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. Byatt -
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 -
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 -
The heart never knows the colour of the skin
-- Chief Dan George -
When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!
-- Coco Chanel -
Chromophobia is perhaps only chromophilia without the colour.
-- David Batchelor -
Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.
-- Dieter Rams -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I have an intensive hatred for discrimination based on colour.
-- John Diefenbaker -
Anything can be any color at any time depending on what color everything else is at the time.
-- Keith Crown