Colour Quotes

The heart never knows the colour of the skin

Broken crayons still colour the same

Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.

Life without dreams is like a rainbow without colours.

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

Colour is the skin of the world.

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

Use the worst colour you can find in each place - it usually is the best.

You sit better on a colour that you like

Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.

I have an intensive hatred for discrimination based on colour.

I tend to wear monochromatic outfits - all one colour from head to toe.

I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged.

All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

Blushing is the colour of virtue.

On the prairie one can see the colour of the air.

Colour is the soul of Nature and of the entire cosmos.

When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!

Jack Cardiff - the greatest cameraman who ever worked in colour - was a lab boy to start with so he knew Technicolor from the inside out.

I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else.

Having a favourite colour is like having a favourite lung.

Anything can be any color at any time depending on what color everything else is at the time.

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

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

Put variety in white.

Color is the fruit of life.

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

All colours will agree in the dark.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint.

Water colours are wet colours in water.

It almost always happens that true, but exaggerated, coloring is more agreeable than absolute coloring.

You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.

Colour acts simultaneously with form, but has nothing to do with form.

I'm what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.

All color is no color.

They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'

I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white - I like the abstraction of it.

The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

Black is the queen of colours.

Chromophobia is perhaps only chromophilia without the colour.

Who says soul has only one colour?

There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.

Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .

Ah,
Manet has come very,
very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.

I'm very interested in how colour and shape are perceived.

Walk out like someone suddenly born into colour. Do it now.

It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.

Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.