Colour Quotes - Page 30

• However exquisite the contours or the colours of clouds, trees, rivers or hills, may be in themselves, they must be sacrificed if they do not conform with the general plan.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Sacrifice, Clouds, Rivers

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• The artist who pictures sounds as colours, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another... is not attending to what the world considers important.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Sea, Differences

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• In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.

  John F. Carlson

  Beautiful, Anxiety, Canvas

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• A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any 'story' outside of itself - or else it belongs to the field of illustration.

  John F. Carlson

  Beautiful, Art, Illustration

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• The eye and soul are caressed in the contemplation of form and colour. The subtle changes of colour over a surface - transitions that are like music - are intangible in their reaction upon us. There is an immediate sensuous appeal!

  John F. Carlson

  Eye, Soul, Transition

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• Trust your feelings entirely about colour, and then, even if you arrive at no infallible colour theory, you will at least have the credit of having your own colour sense.

  John F. Carlson

  Trust, Feelings, Credit

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• Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's just the opposite. I must account for every line, shape and colour and I am forced to give an explanation of the inexplicable and account for the variety of styles the students present.

  Pierre Alechinsky

  Teacher, Teaching, Artist

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• I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.

  E. J. Hughes

  Age, Looks, Lines

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• If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.

  E. J. Hughes

  Photography, Giving, Serious

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• Every means should be taken to attach the soldier to his colours.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Taken, Mean

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which feed on leaves are generally green; and earth-worms the colour of the earth which they inhabit; butter-flies, which frequent flowers, are coloured like them; small birds which frequent hedges have greenish backs like the leaves, and light-coloured bellies like the sky, and are hence less visible to the hawk who passes under them or over them.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Nature, Flower, Science

  Erasmus Darwin (1807). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants”

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• Music to me is a voice, my voice, it's my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.

  St. Jerome

  Song, Ideas, Voice

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• I want to get all the nations of the world together, it doesn't matter what colour or creed, and I want to sit them down and say: "Guys, The Office is still available on DVD."

  Ricky Gervais

  Dvds, Office, Guy

  "Ricky Gervais goes to Springfield". Interview with Brian Viner, www.independent.co.uk. April 14, 2006.

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• With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.

  Dave Grohl

  Albums, Records, Shapes

  "New Again: Dave Grohl". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 22, 2015.

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• Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they have ever been mixed in paint.

  Joseph Plaskett

  Eye, Way, Paint

  "Painting by Addition". Essay by Joseph Plaskett, 1994.

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• Imagine a glorious full moon coming over the tops of the spruce, big and yellow, shedding a mysterious light on everything... the moonlight had colour, you could see to paint and be able to appreciate the colour of things.

  Arthur Lismer

  Moon, Light, Yellow

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• What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose its shape.

  Jules Olitski

  Clouds, Doe, Shapes

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• GEJ is the only president in recent years who did not allocate a single oil bloc to anybody, not to talk of himself.
  And these are the areas where you can tell corruption in its true colour.
  He did not allocate oil bloc to himself, family or friends up till now.
  He also did not give a single marginal field to himself or anybody else even though he is the only president that comes from the Niger Delta where the oil is coming from.

  Nuhu Ribadu

  Oil, Years, Giving

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• The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of different sizes, densities, colours and volumes, floating in space, traversing clouds, sprays of water, currents of air, viscosities and odours - of the greatest variety and disparity.

  Alexander Calder

  Clouds, Air, Circles

  "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists, Harper & Row, New York and Evanston, Illinois". Interview with Katherine Kuh, 1962.

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• I like to keep a uniform - wear a blazer, try to keep the same colour pants; very tailored, very fitted but still edgy.

  Theophilus London

  Trying, Uniforms, Pants

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• Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Thinking, Soul, Quality

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1701). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself”, p.74

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• The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Pain, Sorrow, Facts

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• Broken crayons still colour the same

  Trent Shelton

  Broken, Crayon, Stills

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• The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?

  Bill Vaughan

  Love, Philosophy, Heart

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• When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Lying, Two, Needs

  "When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted" l. 1 (1892)

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