Colour Quotes - page 3

Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray. (Paul Morand)
The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody. View quote
Tom Stoppard
I hold the imitation of colour to be the greatest difficulty of art. View quote
El Greco
Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red. View quote
Anish Kapoor
Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it. View quote
George Orwell
The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin. View quote
David Harvey
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair. View quote
A. E. Housman
A sculptor is supposed to be a dull dog anyway, so why should he not break out in colour sometimes, and in my case I'd as soon be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. View quote
Jacob Epstein
In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear. View quote
Adolph Gottlieb
You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper. (Allan Kaprow)
Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour. View quote
Kenneth Clark
I don't work from drawings and colour sketches into a final painting. Painting, I think, today – the more immediate, the more direct – the greater the possibilities of making a direct – of making a statement. View quote
Jackson Pollock
I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not listen. They thought the road to salvation lay by the way of colour. View quote
Edgar Degas
I have these large pieces of recycled brown paper stretched on my apartment wall and when I am not doing anything fashion-related, I'm drawing on it, playing with colour spectrums. View quote
Sasha Pivovarova
The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams. View quote
Claude Debussy
They make a fine purple colour by treating bilberry in the same way and mixing it with milk. View quote
Vitruvius
Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest Black the colour icing on our cake. View quote
Andy Partridge
So quiet and subtle is the beauty of December that escapes the notice of many people their whole lives through.. Colour gives way to form. every branch distinct, in a delicate tracery against the sky.. new vistas obscured all Summer by leafage, now open up. View quote
Flora Thompson
You wouldn't believe the number of people who hang the electric chair painting in the homes, especially if the colour of the canvas matches the curtains. View quote
Andy Warhol
Colour is a power which directly influences the soul. (Wassily Kandinsky)
Even though there's a massive amount of people of colour now living in Scotland...this country is 30 or 40 years behind any other English city in terms of racial attitudes and integration. There's no proper acknowledgement of the slave trade and how many Scottish cities were founded on money from that. Our children are just not taught that history. View quote
Jackie Kay
Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour. View quote
Horace
I spend a lot of my time looking at blue, The colour of my room and my mood... View quote
Kate Bush
Blushing is the colour of virtue. View quote
Matthew Henry