Colour Quotes - Page 27

• We're not allowed in the cutting room - and that's extraordinary. So, when a director is asking for certain nuances and colours and we feel that they're phoney, but we do it because the director asks for it, that's the one that they pick in the cutting room. And I contend that when you see a movie with bad acting, don't blame the actor... blame those guys in the cutting room because they like that take.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Cutting, Guy, Acting

  "Quartet - Dustin Hoffman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• God knows, I'm not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.

  Robert Burns

  Atheist, Twenties, Would Be

  Robert Burns, James Currie (1847). “Works: With an Account of His Life and Criticism on His Writings, to which are Prefixed Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry”, p.131

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• I colour for a living. When I am a good artist, the only difference between me and a child is that I am more wrinkled. When I am not being a good artist, the only difference between me and a child is every difference imaginable.

  Janice Tanton

  Children, Artist, Differences

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• The Egyptians would sacrifice red-headed men on the tomb of Osiris because red was the colour associated with Set, the Egyptian version of Satan.

  David Icke

  Sacrifice, Men, Osiris

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• On the prairie one can see the colour of the air.

  Emily Murphy

  Air, Prairie

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• Fauvism was our ordeal by fire... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light... The great merit of this method was to free the picture from all imitative and conventional contact.

  Andre Derain

  Fire, Light, Merit

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• I have a fierce desire to paint colour.

  Fred Williams

  Desire, Fierce, Paint

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• There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.

  James May

  Spiritual, Shapes, Legos

  "James May's Lego adventure". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2009.

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• Who says soul has only one colour?

  Joss Stone

  Soul

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• As a rule, ladies of the Royal Family wear light coloured clothes because such colours are more discernible against a great crowd.

  Norman Hartnell

  Light, Clothes, Crowds

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• Often my very first flash of colour recognition, before it has been processed by the rest of the information in my brain, is the right one.

  Catherine Taylor

  Brain, Information, Firsts

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• Sometimes I will look away very quickly, and freeze frame that first impression, pleased with myself that I have outsmarted my own smartness, and perceived a colour as it actually is.

  Catherine Taylor

  First Impression, Looks, Firsts

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• If there's a message to pass to people, I'd say that it's normal to be different from others, it's good to differ from one another, and we'd better look at ourselves first before we start criticising someone who looks, acts, speaks different or has a different skin colour. I'd like to continue, even at a minimal level, what John Lennon had started. If I could do as much as a bit of what he did, if I could contribute to the elimination of hatred among us, that would be a great deal.

  Johnny Depp

  People, Hatred, Skins

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• Describe snow to someone who's lived in the desert. Depict the colour blue for a blind man. Almost impossible to fashion the word.

  Andrea Levy

  Fashion, Men, Blue

  Andrea Levy (2010). “Small Island: A Novel”, p.383, Macmillan

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• Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.

  Rumer Godden

  Tea, Apricots, Cups

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• The clean clear colours were in my head. But one day as I looked at the brown burned wood of the Shanty, I thought 'I can paint one of those dismal-coloured paintings like the men. I think just for fun I will try - all low-toned and dreary with the tree besides the door.' In my next show, 'The Shanty' went up. The men seemed to approve of it. They seemed to think that maybe I was beginning to paint. That was my only low-toned dismal-coloured painting.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Fun, Men, Thinking

  "Some Memories of Drawings". Book by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1974.

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• Inside a dark well, everyman's favourite colour is blue!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dark, Blue, Favourite

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• Rest your eyes well before September because with all its colours autumn is coming to visit them!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Eye, Autumn, September

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• Colour disturbs people. I am confident in black, not in light. This dark side of life is attractive to me forever and from the beginning. I am a lazy designer when it comes to colour.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Dark, Light, People

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• I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any more colour, it looks like I've been smacked in the mouth!

  Kate Beckinsale

  Add, Looks, Mouths

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• Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself in the astral world, visible to the astral sight.

  Annie Besant

  Sight, Feelings, World

  Annie Besant (2016). “Karma”, p.14, BookRix

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• I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Art, Textiles, Lovers

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• I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which I could see light and colour with.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Football, Eye, Light

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• U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

  Bono

  Emotional, Feelings, Originality

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• Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Degrees, Literature, Shapes

  Elizabeth Bowen (1975). “Pictures and conversations”, Lane, Allen

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