Colour Quotes
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Winter solitude - in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
Matsuo Basho -
Black is a colour of power and strength.
Hayden Fry
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Fauvism was our ordeal by fire... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light... The great merit of this method was to free the picture from all imitative and conventional contact.
Andre Derain -
The cure for him would be to take a good long look at some potato plants, which have lately had such a deep and distinctive colour and tone, instead of driving himself mad looking at pieces of yellow satin and gold leather.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
Kate Williams -
I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
Imelda May -
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 -
They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'
Eddie Izzard
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I'm from east LA. I don't see colour.
will.i.am -
The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.
Tom Stoppard -
You can go to church and sing a hymn, Judge me by the colour of my skin, You can live a lie until you die, One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside.
John Lennon The Beatles -
On the prairie one can see the colour of the air.
Emily Murphy -
I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not listen. They thought the road to salvation lay by the way of colour.
Edgar Degas -
I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.
Fay Godwin
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Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave.
William Shakespeare -
There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
Edouard Manet -
I always have my Laura Mercier foundation and concealer with me, and I love the Rimmel Kate Moss lipsticks. My favourite is shade 08, because it's just such a lovely natural colour with just a bit of pink to it.
Abbey Clancy -
I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design.
Nathalie Kelley -
If there is inequality, and that equates with colour, then I'm going to deal with it.
Forest Whitaker -
When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.
Damien Hirst
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I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any more colour, it looks like I've been smacked in the mouth!
Kate Beckinsale -
Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form.
Victor Vasarely -
Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.
Anthony Quinn -
When I was a teenager, I experimented a lot with hair colour, and the result was just awful.
Irina Shayk