Colour Quotes - Page 28

• I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.

  Jeff Bridges

  Black And White, Going Out, Daylight

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• When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that and feeling like I was losing control.

  Steve Buscemi

  Losing Control, Talking, Tree

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2001.

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• I always loved both 'Breakout' and 'Asteroids' - I thought they were really good games. There was another game called 'Tempest' that I thought was really cool, and it represented a really hard technology. It's probably one of the only colour-vector screens that was used in the computer graphics field at that time.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Technology, Games, Vectors

  "Meet Nolan Bushnell, the man who created the videogames industry". Interview with Steve Boxer, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2009.

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• I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

  A. S. Byatt

  Real, Thinking, Wednesday

  "AS Byatt: woman of letters and ...science!". "All In The Mind" with Antonia Byatt, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2010.

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• Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

  Paul Cezanne

  Drawing, Abstraction, Pure

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• Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Husband, Shoes

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• The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Distance, Loss, Drawing

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.343, Delphi Classics

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• Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Distance, Light, Sight

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.345, Delphi Classics

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• When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but DO NOT BE FOOLED. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.

  Beth Ditto

  Cutting, Hair, Maintenance

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2008.

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• I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.

  John Dyer

  Energy, Way, Paint

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• Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

  Lucian Freud

  Emotional, Want, Significance

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• I don't think people need to know what colour socks I'm wearing today; I don't think people need to know what shower gel I'm using. There's too much information in the world, and there's no magic or mystery anymore.

  Noel Gallagher

  Thinking, People, Magic

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• I love pink - pink's my favourite. I hardly ever - weirdly - wear it, but I love the colour pink.

  Ellie Goulding

  Favourite

  Interview with Jenn Selby, www.glamourmagazine.co.uk. May 25, 2011.

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• I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature.

  John Grisham

  Book, Blue, Signatures

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• I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'

  Larry Hagman

  Cousin, Brother, Uncles

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• When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

  Ben Harper

  Art, Differences, Use

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• Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.

  Matthew Henry

  Gay, Temptation, Skins

  Matthew Henry (2016). “Bible Commentary - Genesis”, p.68, Bible Study Books

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• By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention color is color. But in reality there are atoms and the void. That is, the objects of sense are supposed to be real and it is customary to regard them as such, but in truth they are not. Only the atoms and the void are real.

  Democritus

  Sweet, Truth, Real

  "Source Book in Ancient Philosophy". Book by Charles Montague Bakewell, 1907.

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• I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is intended to.

  Jonathan Ive

  Philosophical, Perception, Stuff

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• The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Needs

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• There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

  Magic, Ink, Bottles

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• How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although I do not 'babble,' I think of green fields; I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have know from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with superhuman fancy.

  John Keats

  Death, Flower, Thinking

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• The difference between me and a butterfly is that the butterfly looks at a flower with no purpose in mind but to sip nectar. The flower feeds its body while for me the colours and shapes and scents of flowers feed my heart. But how arrogant of me to assume that the butterfly does not feel its miniscule heart also soar for no reason other than touching and being touched by beauty!

  Densey Clyne

  Beauty, Flower, Butterfly

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• The beauty of the air, from the air... You haven't seen Australia unless you see it from the air. The coastline, the colours of the inland. The claypans, the forests. It's just all so beautiful. You'd never see that from the road. People climb mountains to see these things. You see that every time you take off.

  Nancy Bird Walton

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

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• The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Light, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations...”

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