Colour Quotes - page 4

The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays. (Leonardo da Vinci)
If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree by the colour of the objects surrounding it. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire. View quote
Anna Akhmatova
If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and the most difficult liberation process we went trough, the one that has distinguished our art, was the freeing of colour, the transition to a painterly spontaneity. View quote
Asger Jorn
Nowadays, one of the churches of Tlön maintains platonically that such and such a pain, such and such a greenish-yellow colour, such and such a temperature, such and such a sound, etc., make up the only reality there is. All men, in the climactic instant of coitus, are the same man. All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
The sensation of colour cannot be accounted for by the physicist's objective picture of light-waves. View quote
Erwin Schrödinger
The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves. View quote
Quentin Crisp
The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm. View quote
John Locke
When all candels be out, all cats be grey, All thingis are then of one colour, as who sey. And this prouerbe faith, for quenching hot desyre, Foul water as soone as fayre, will quenche hot fyre. View quote
John Heywood
Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks! View quote
Marie Corelli
There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world. (Peter James)
Silena appeared out of the woods, her sword drawn. Her Aphrodite armour was pink and red, colour coordinated to match her clothes and makeup. She looked like Guerilla Warfare Barbie. View quote
Rick Riordan
Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we're wearing - if it's red top, white shorts, white socks or black socks. Then I lie in bed the night before the game and visualise myself scoring goals or doing well. View quote
Wayne Rooney
There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist... If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too distant to use as a comparison then nothing seems strange. View quote
Alex Garland
I love dishes that feature the various shades of a single colour, making you stop to check what's in there. View quote
Yotam Ottolenghi
Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece. View quote
Kakuzo Okakura
I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams. View quote
Joanne Harris
Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world. View quote
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Colour is not the issue in America; class is. View quote
Gil Scott-Heron
Who says soul has only one colour? View quote
Joss Stone
Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two. (Franz Marc)
The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance. View quote
Arthur Smith
I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest. View quote
Binyavanga Wainaina
I think it's important to keep your personal life to yourself as much as you can. It protects your sanity and you need to have boundaries. And it helps that enchantment of watching an actor. If you know someone's favourite colour or what they like to do on a Sunday, you won't fall for the character as much. View quote
Dianna Agron
When I think of flavours, I think colour, so lemon should be yellow and orange is orange. View quote
Dylan Lauren