Colour Quotes - Page 5

• It seems obvious that colors vary according to lights, because when any color is placed in the shade, it appears to be different from the same color which is located in light. Shade makes color dark, whereas light makes color bright where it strikes.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Dark, Light, Color

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• Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?

  Jay Asher

  Blood, Lust, Black

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.175, Penguin

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• Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see it.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Color, Names, Sound

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• Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint.

  Sara Genn

  Vibrancy, Restraint

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• If you look closely at any face, you'll start to see that different areas of the flesh tones are tinged with four other colors - red, green, purple and yellow.

  Doug Dawson

  Color, Purple, Yellow

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• Flowers and flames. And color. Color as color, not as volume or light - only as color.

  Charles Demuth

  Flower, Light, Flames

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• In order to change a color it is enough to change the color of its background.

  Michel Eugene Chevreul

  Order, Color, Enough

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• Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.

  Franz Marc

  Spiritual, Blue, Two

  Susanna Partsch, Franz Marc (2001). “Marc”, p.26, Taschen

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• The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Real, Poetry

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.15, University of Chicago Press

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• There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Color, Yellow, Orange

  1888 Letter to Emile Bernard, Jun.

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• If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope.

  Marc Chagall

  Moving, Hope And Love, Ends

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• The purpose of life is to pass the frontiers! Attack the frontiers to go beyond them with the determination of a bull attacking the red colour!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Determination, Purpose

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• They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Emerald Green, Emeralds

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• Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better colour.

  Kanye West

  Blue, Picks

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• Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

  Jules Feiffer

  Art, Stupid, Thinking

  Jules Feiffer (1963). “Feiffer's Album”

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• Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.

  Roald Dahl

  Rainbow, Different, Six

  Roald Dahl (1977). “Charlie and the chocolate factory”

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• It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Interesting, Important

  Vincent Van Gogh (2013). “Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.

  Nelson Mandela

  Respect, Men, Color

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.139, Pan Macmillan

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• I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

  David Bowie

  Song, Expression, Wish

  "David Bowie on Ziggy Stardust, white funk and other theatrical matters - a classic interview". Interview with Charles Shaar Murray, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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• I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.

  John Dyer

  Sky, White, Sea

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• More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.

  Robert Genn

  Red, Action, Loaded

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• And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light and a striving evermore for these; and he is dead, who will not fight; and who dies fighting has increase.

  Julian Grenfell

  Fighting, Light, Life Is

  'Into Battle' in 'The Times' 28 May 1915

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• I'm definitely not gonna make a joke about separating the whites and colours, so don't try to make me. So instead, I'll just say something like “BOOGABOOGABOOGADOBLUH I'M A PERSON BLUHBLUHBLGUHGHGGHGH”. That appeals to everybody.

  Toby Turner

  Trying, Appeals, Persons

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• Fred didn't have a favourite colour. He was just pleased that he could see all of the colours in the colour chart. That was his wish for everyone. Fred wanted people to experience the joy of seeing vivid colours - in nature: the greens and browns of the mountains; in their work: the orange, red and black of the back of the retina; and in life.

  Gabi Hollows

  Motivation, Orange, People

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• The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled with an infinite number of images which are produced by the various bodies and colours assembled in it. And the eye is the target, a lodestone, of these images.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Numbers, Atmosphere

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.358, Delphi Classics

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