Colour Quotes

• Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Science, Soul, Vibrations

  Wassily Kandinsky (1914). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sunset, Rainbow, Soul

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• It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.

  John Lennon

  Motivational, Men, Hair

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• There are four seasons in a year: Winter, Spring, Summer and Colour!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Summer, Spring, Winter

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• Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Color, Design

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Thoughtful, Color

  1851-3 The Stones ofVenice, vol.ii, ch.5.

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• All colours will agree in the dark.

  Francis Bacon

  Dark, Agree

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Unity in Religion'

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• Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

  Oscar Wilde

  Color, Soul, Different

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.319, Penguin

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• Color is a matter of taste and sensitivity.

  Edouard Manet

  Color, Taste, Matter

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• Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

  Edward Thorndike

  Wise, Wisdom, Fall

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• I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspiring, Art, Flower

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.23, Infobase Publishing

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• Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

  Murasaki Shikibu

  World, Crayon, Seems

  Murasaki Shikibu (1936*). “The tale of Genji: a novel”

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• Color is the fruit of life.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Color, Fruit

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• The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life. At every era of his existence and his history, the human being has associated colour with his joys, his actions and his pleasures.

  Fernand Leger

  Fire, Water, Joy

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• Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?

  Pablo Picasso

  Color, Two, Next

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• Walk out like someone suddenly born into colour. Do it now.

  Rumi

  Born, Walks

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• With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

  Theodore Gericault

  Imagination, Produce, Brushes

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• Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.

  Marion Milner

  Feelings, Language, Evidence

  Marion Milner (2010). “On Not Being Able To Paint”, p.183, Routledge

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• Color is something we see with our eyes, but love is something we see with our heart.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Heart, Eye, Love Is

  Joan Walsh Anglund (1971). “Do You Love Someone?”, Harcourt Childrens Books

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• And then I saw him and nothing was ever the same again. The sky was never the same colour, the moon never the same shape: the air never smelt the same, food never tasted the same. Every word I knew changed its meaning, everything that once was stable and firm became as insubstantial as a puff of wind, and every puff of wind became a solid thing I could feel and touch.

  Stephen Fry

  Moon, Air, Wind

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.233, Soho Press

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• Colour is the soul of Nature and of the entire cosmos.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Soul, Cosmos

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• My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.

  Joni Mitchell

  Eight, Gold, Silver

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• On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color.

  Robert Breault

  Artist, Color, Doubt

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• Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

  Marie Corelli

  Lovely, Delicacy, Thanks

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• I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.

  Joanne Harris

  Dream, Sound, Stories

  "This much I know: Joanne Harris". Interview with Emma John, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2010.

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