Colour Quotes

I think it pisses God off when you walk by the colour purple in a field and don't notice it. (Alice Walker)
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most. View quote
John Ruskin
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. View quote
Paul Cézanne
For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind. View quote
Emily Brontë
I know that if odour were visible as colour is, I'd see the summer garden aureoled in rainbow clouds. View quote
Robert Bridges
The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism-Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860-it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason. View quote
John Singer Sargent
Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace. View quote
Christian Dior
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged. (Pauline Hanson)
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. View quote
Nelson Mandela
Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black. View quote
Henry Ford
But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has its moment of truth and sorrow, the soul can't be stilled. View quote
Gregory David Roberts
It's the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders. View quote
Giles Foden
Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design. View quote
Kakuzo Okakura
Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour? View quote
Keith Henson
When you grow up in that (multi-ethnic) environment, you see the world differently. Being a mixed-race child, I didn't always see colour in people, I really didn't. It was other people that made me see the colour all the time. View quote
Halle Berry
Youngsters inspired by Maoism have taken the gun and are spilling blood on streets, but our land needs the colour of progress not the colour of blood. Maoists must not have the gun in their hands, instead they must have agriculture tools and pens so that they can serve others. Raasta kalam, hal aur pasine ka hai, khoon ka nahi. View quote
Narendra Modi
I have an intensive hatred for discrimination based on colour. View quote
John Diefenbaker
The 'Women' [paintings] had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a certain extent; I couldn't go on. It did one thing for me: it eliminated composition, arrangement, relationships, light – all this silly talk about line, colour and form – because that was the thing I wanted to get hold of. (Willem de Kooning)
Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture. View quote
Thomas Hardy
One can derive the same fun from print-making as from making mud pies and great subtlety can be achieved through the use of transparent inks, half-tone screens and even accidental colour combinations, which is often where the art hides. View quote
Ralph Steadman
The Mackenzie had never met folk so poor in story and song and legends, and it moved him to a pity that pricked at his eyes. Without that tapestry of colour and words and ritual, what was life but eating and mating, sleeping and moving your bowels? All of them good and necessary, but not enough; and they themselves needed that framework too, to give them meaning. View quote
S. M. Stirling
There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every colour holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus. To a person who has no art in him, colours are colours, tones tones...and that is all. All their consequences for the human spirit, which range between heaven to hell, just go unnoticed. View quote
Emil Nolde