Colour Quotes - Page 22

• My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour and space are at the whim of reality, their discovery and organization is the assignment of the realist painter.

  Ralph Goings

  Reality, Light, Discovery

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• The sky was the colour of sad weddings.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Sky

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• With the early prototypes, I held the phone to my ear and my ear [would] dial the number. You have to detect all sorts of ear-shapes and chin shapes, skin colour and hairdo... that was one of just many examples where we really thought, perhaps this isn’t going to work.

  Jonathan Ive

  Phones, Numbers, Skins

  "Apple design chief: We nearly scrapped iPhone" By Rory Anderson, www.cnn.com. August 3, 2012.

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• 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.

  Asger Jorn

  Art, Often Is, Important

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 162), 2002.

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• Colour is the skin of the world.

  Sonia Delaunay

  Skins, World

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• I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to man. But my religious feelings were immediately replaced by the spirit of universal charity — not for a sect, or a party, or for a country or a colour — but for the human race, and with a real and ardent desire to do good.

  Robert Owen

  Country, Religious, Real

  Robert Owen (1857). “The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.16

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• A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.

  Ernst Mach

  Space, Temperature, Source

  Ernst Mach (1959). “The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

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• I am attracted to generic or 'industrial' colours; paper bag brown, file cabinet gray, industrial green, that kind of thing.

  Robert Mangold

  Bags, Paper, Green

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• People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about man’s past…the past shows clearly that we all have a common origin and that our differences in race, colour and creed are only superficial.

  Louis Leakey

  Past, Men, Race

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• Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.

  Dieter Rams

  Whole, Colourful

  "Dieter Rams at home, 2004". Interview with Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. September 29, 2010.

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• I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

  Arvo Part

  Light, White, Spirit

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• I think love is caramel. Sweet and fragant; always welcome. It is the gentle golden colour of a setting harvest sun; the warmth of a squeezed embrace; the easy melting of two souls into one and a taste that lingers even when everything else has melted away. Once tasted it is never forgotten.

  Jenny Colgan

  Sweet, Thinking, Love Is

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• The colour grey makes you feel uneasy, makes things seem complicated and hopeless, it upsets the notion of black and white. Good and evil? There is no such thing. There is a little good and a evil, a little black and a little white. Grey is not an attractive colour, but perhaps it is the one that describes the world most accurately.

  Akif Pirincci

  Black And White, Evil, Upset

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• I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true.

  Leslie Charteris

  Laughter, Believe, Fighting

  "The Last Hero".

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• Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference.

  Ruggiero Ricci

  Differences, Doe, Looks

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• Racism is a disease in society. We're all equal. I don't care what their colour is, or religion. Just as long as they're human beings they're my buddies.

  Mandawuy Yunupingu

  Long, Racism, Care

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.

  Silvia Cartwright

  War, Character, Vivid

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• The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular sorts of entities. So that for example, no mathematical truths apply merely to fish, or merely to stones, or merely to colours. So long as you are dealing with pure mathematics, you are in the realm of complete and absolute abstraction. . . . Mathematics is thought moving in the sphere of complete abstraction from any particular instance of what it is talking about.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Moving, Science, Talking

  1925 Science And the Modern World.

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• 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.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Design, Sides, Thread

  Okakura Kakuzo (2012). “The Book of Tea: Classic Edition”, p.22, Tuttle Publishing

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• Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.

  Anthony Quinn

  Eye, Men, Blue

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• In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.

  John Ruskin

  Independent, Sky, House

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• In choosing a colour one must realize that it changes in different aspects.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Design, Different, Realizing

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• Life isn't always easy but so long as we have hope that we will find someone to help us through the darkness things will always get better. When we find that person, life suddenly explodes and darkness turns into a riot of colour. We're always looking for someone, what we need to remember is that someone is out there looking for us too.

  George Sand

  Romantic Love, Long, Darkness

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• Each day brings its own colours to be chosen, mixed, pigments of joy, happy moments, smiles and laughter.... And which will you choose? For 'Life' is choice.

  John McLeod

  Laughter, Joy, Choices

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• Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.

  Bram Stoker

  Men, Feet, White

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.30, Noodle-Doo Studios

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