Colour Quotes - Page 36

• No canvas absorbs colour like memory.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Memories, Canvas

  Robert Aris Willmott (1852). “A Journal of Summer Time in the Country”, p.188

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• What more delightsome than an infinite varietie of sweet smelling flowers? decking with sundry colours the greene mantle of the Earth, the universall Mother of us all, so by them bespotted, so dyed, that all the world cannot sample them, and wherein it is more fit to admire the Dyer, than imitate his workemanship. Colouring not onely the earth, but decking the ayre, and sweetning every breath and spirit.

  William Lawson

  Mother, Sweet, Flower

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• The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

  G. H. Hardy

  Beauty, Beautiful, Math

  A Mathematician's Apology ch. 10 (1940)

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• I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Clouds, Blood

  1889 Diary.

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• He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my own pictures,' he murmured aloud. 'Then I'd be completely self-sufficient.'

  Irving Stone

  Self, Design, Canvas

  Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing

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• The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying colours, or lose many of her laurels.

  Isabella Beeton

  Party, Giving, Flying

  Isabella Beeton, Nicola Humble (2008). “Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged Edition”, p.21, Oxford University Press

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• I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying, Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be. And I be, Mama.

  Sonia Sanchez

  Daughter, Mother, Song

  Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems”, p.58, Beacon Press

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• Those who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in life and honoured in death, when all questions of colour are swept away and when in a free country free citizens shall meet on equal grounds.

  Annie Besant

  Spiritual, Country, Memorable

  Annie Besant (1913). “Wake Up, India: A Plea for Social Reform”

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• Colour is everything, black and white is more.

  Dominic Rouse

  Black And White, White, Black

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• Colours shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over the earth on rainy mornings only.

  Haruki Murakami

  Morning, Rain, Yellow

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 08, 2015

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• You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Thinking, Thank You Sister, Depends

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• His markings, month by month, became more beautiful, lines of autumn bracken colours with shapes which reminded me of currents on a quiet sea. True that at times his head, because of his youth, looked scraggy, even his body sometimes looked scraggy, but suddenly for some reason like the change of light, or of mood, he looked his potential. This was going to be a champion cat.

  Derek Tangye

  Beautiful, Cat, Autumn

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• The King saw them with no common satisfaction, expressing his desire in no particular to have yt Stellar fish engraven and printed. We wish very much, Sir, yt you could procure for us a particular description of yesd Fish, viz. whether it be common there; what is observable in it when alive; what colour it then hath; what kind of motion in the water; what use it maketh of all that curious workmanship, wch Nature hath adorn'd it with?

  Henry Oldenburg

  Kings, Science, Water

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• I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of breaking down and conforming, I stood firm. That is also probably why I was unhappy.

  Christina Hendricks

  Kids, Hair, People

  "Mad Men and me: Christina Hendricks interview". Interview With Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2011.

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• I think it's important to keep your personal life to yourself as much as you can. It protects your sanity and you need to have boundaries. And it helps that enchantment of watching an actor. If you know someone's favourite colour or what they like to do on a Sunday, you won't fall for the character as much.

  Dianna Agron

  Fall, Character, Sunday

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• Hi. There was a big accident, some people got decapitated, here are their names... You know what? That shirt really makes you look fat. I mean, the colour's all wrong... I mean, who shot the drapes?

  Colin Mochrie

  Mean, Names, People

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• I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.

  Michael Caine

  Autumn, Garden, Tree

  Michael Caine (2010). “The Elephant to Hollywood”, p.364, Hachette UK

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• I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart.

  Kim Hunter

  Heart, Eye, Black And White

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• You put on a pair of Louboutins and the world changes colour.

  Rossy de Palma

  Louboutins, World, Pairs

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• I transmit astral plane harmonies through my brushes into the physical plane. These otherworld colours are reflected in the alphabet of nature, a grammar in which the symbols are plants, animals, birds, fishes, earth and sky. I am merely a channel for the spirit to utilize, and it is needed by a spirit starved society.

  Norval Morrisseau

  Animal, Sky, Bird

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• I love jell-o. I love the way it comes in rainbow colours, wiggles and jiggles and looks like brains.

  Megan McDonald

  Rainbow, Brain, Looks

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• I think love to another human can't be wrong in any way. And to show that by painting my nails in rainbow colours, is a simple way to hopefully spread a little joy.

  Emma Green Tregaro

  Simple, Thinking, Rainbow

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• Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.

  David Hockney

  Strong, Swimming, Men

  David Hockney (1978). “Travels with Pen, Pencil and Ink”

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• The colour blue - that is my colour - and the colour blue means you have left the drabness of day-to-day reality to be transported into - not a world of fantasy, it’s not a world of fantasy - but a world of freedom where you can say what you like and what you don’t like. This has been expressed forever by the colour blue, which is really sky blue.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Mean, Reality, Blue

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• For frequent tears have run; The colours from my life.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Running, Suffering, Tears

  'Sonnets from the Portuguese' (1850) no. 8

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