Colour Quotes - Page 33

• The black people's struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of Africa, has made it in the United States of America.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Struggle, Son, America

  "Kadhafi closes AU summit, division over plans for 'United States of Africa'". www1.rfi.fr. February 4, 2009.

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• Allah made us all a different shade and colour. Nations and tribes recognize one another! 'Cause every single person is your sister and brother.

  Dawud Wharnsby Ali

  Brother, Different, Shade

  "Song: 'Colours of Islam' ('Colours of Islam')". 1998.

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• We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to another form on its own, it does not exist.

  Edouard Vuillard

  Giving, Doe, Etc

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• Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.

  Wilkie Collins

  Beautiful, Men, Ignorant

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• Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life

  Fernand Leger

  Fire, Water, Needs

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• Do some interesting things that you have never done before! Add more colours to your life; enrich your existence with every kind of oddities!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Oddities, Interesting

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• While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Art, Dark, Tragedy

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• Fine colour implies a unified relationship, in which each part is subordinate to the whole, and the transitions between them are felt to be as precious and beautiful as the colours themselves. In fact, the colours themselves must be continuously modified and broken as part of the transition.

  Kenneth Clark

  Beautiful, Broken, Transition

  Kenneth Clark (1973). “The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art”

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• Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Color, Facts

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• The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.

  John Locke

  Pain, Loss, Shapes

  John Locke (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of John Locke (Illustrated)”, p.1518, Delphi Classics

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• Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in spring, it lights the glowworm's lamp, it wakens the song of birds, and inspires the poet's lay. Even inanimate Nature seems to feel the spell, and flowers glow with the richest colours.

  John Lubbock

  Song, Spring, Flower

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• Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour.

  Kenneth Clark

  Style, Age, Kind

  "The Romantic Rebellion". Book by Kenneth Clark, Ch. 13: Degas, 1973.

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• When the light of the sun shines through a prism it is broken into beautiful colours, and when the prism is shattered, still the light remains. So does the life of life shine resplendent in the forms of our friends, and so, when their forms are broken, still their life remains; and in that life we are united with them; for the life of their life is also our life, and we are one with them by ties indissoluble.

  Felix Adler

  Beautiful, Ties, Light

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• I was trained to look at colour, edges, to see negative space. I honestly think my greatest influence as a writer is from Cubism - the idea of a multi-faceted, multi-perspective way of looking at things.

  Rebecca Miller

  Thinking, Ideas, Space

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Fashion is meant to be wild and expressive. I love colour but I also love basics - grungy minimalism mixed with this kind of broken-down cheerleader, is my thing.

  Charli XCX

  Fashion, Broken, Cheerleader

  Source: coupdemainmagazine.com

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• If there's loads of material going by you don't notice the individual things quite so much. Also it really foregrounds the sonic dimensions like electronic ambient music, it's pushes all of that colour to the foreground so you hear little every atom of sound.

  Max Richter

  Sound, Atoms, Littles

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I don't like when things don't match. I love some Eighties fashion, like Grace Jones but primary colours only work in certain situations.

  Kemp Muhl

  Fashion, Grace, Certain

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I make sure I have the best: I figure you could spend $800 on an outfit you wear three times, but with your hair it's there all the time. I also think it is really important to look after your colour once it's been done. I try and give my hair a really nourishing mask every so often to combat against all the styling. I also love to have beauty treatments that really benefit, like massages. t's divine to get up and feel all zen and relaxed.

  Cat Deeley

  Thinking, Hair, Giving

  "Cat Deeley: Water babe! The presenter shares her beauty secrets on the set of an amazing underwater photoshoot". Interview with Tony Jones, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 27, 2012.

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• I tried to get the word out to people who are information hubs in their communities, because they could propagate the call quickly. One challenge is that breaking science fiction means, well, breaking science fiction. Many communities of colour have a different approach to narratives of science.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  Mean, People, Community

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.

  Hal Duncan

  Skins, Identity, Prejudice

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• The orthodox view of colour experience assumes that, when we see a colour difference between two surfaces viewed side-by-side, this is because we have different responses to each of the two surfaces viewed singly. Since we can detect colour differences between something like ten million different surfaces, this implies that we are capable of ten million colour responses to surfaces viewed singly.

  David Papineau

  Views, Two, Differences

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• I don't think that we are capable of anything like this many possible colour responses. Instead I argue that the perception of colour differences between two surfaces viewed side-by-side is a gestalt phenomenon.

  David Papineau

  Thinking, Two, Differences

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• There is a brain mechanism that works to identify colour differences directly, without first identifying the absolute colour of each surface. So on my view there is no reason to suppose anything like ten million colour responses to surface viewed singly.

  David Papineau

  Views, Differences, Brain

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• I think my view is rather more radical than Pete Mandik's. Both of us want to show that colour perception doesn't transcend what can be conceptualized, but I don't think he goes so far as to deny that it doesn't involve different responses to all the discriminable surfaces.

  David Papineau

  Thinking, Views, Perception

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• After all, in supporting phenomenal concepts I am in a sense siding with introspection against the more behaviourist Wittgensteinians. But even so I don't think that introspection is powerful enough to resolve the specific issue about how many colours you can see.

  David Papineau

  Powerful, Thinking, Issues

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com.

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