Colours Quotes

• Wearing a bold print gets harder as you get older. It's safer to stick to subtle prints or block colours. I have always found prints quite tricky. My daughter Carly, who is on the design team at Stella McCartney, is obsessed with them.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Team
  • Design
  • Daughter

• I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Find
  • Loveliness
  • Subtleties

• I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to me the only possible answer to the questions that are on my mind.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Mind
  • Dark
  • Child

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

  

  Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
  • Roses
  • Colours

• It’s ignorant to think you know everything about a person. There’s many different sides to everybodys personality and there’s just different colours to a personality.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Different
  • Person
  • Personality

• The difference between me and a butterfly is that the butterfly looks at a flower with no purpose in mind but to sip nectar. The flower feeds its body while for me the colours and shapes and scents of flowers feed my heart. But how arrogant of me to assume that the butterfly does not feel its miniscule heart also soar for no reason other than touching and being touched by beauty!

  

  Densey Clyne
  • Heart
  • Difference
  • Butterfly

• From what has been said it is also evident, that the Whiteness of the Sun's Light is compounded all the Colours wherewith the several sorts of Rays whereof that Light consists, when by their several Refrangibilities they are separated from one another, do tinge Paper or any other white Body whereon they fall. For those Colours ... are unchangeable, and whenever all those Rays with those their Colours are mix'd again, they reproduce the same white Light as before.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Light
  • Colours
  • Suns

• Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it's like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn't exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day's work and always brings a smile to your face.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Childhood
  • Memories
  • Smile

• As a rule, ladies of the Royal Family wear light coloured clothes because such colours are more discernible against a great crowd.

  

  Norman Hartnell
  • Crowd
  • Colours
  • Discernible

• It's like with any art, there's always something new to develope, new colours, deepness, awareness, beauty. Each generation has new fields to develope, to work out, making life itself into art.

  

  Hans-Joachim Roedelius
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Generation

• A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you see all the colours and patterns in the dull stone, and it’s marvelous for the stone and marvelous for the teacher.

  

  Elizabeth Hay
  • Water
  • Teacher
  • Marvelous

• Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Attributes
  • Combinations
  • Colours

• The colours of the glass throw blue and green onto her wet cheeks. The sea wind picks up her hair violet electrics snap and sparkle between the strands.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Hair
  • Wind
  • Glass

• The colours of her heart represented the deeds she'd done, both good and bad, but the faint smell of treacle told her that, overall, she had a sweet heart.

  

  Carrie Fletcher
  • Heart
  • Sweet
  • Deeds

• We're not allowed in the cutting room - and that's extraordinary. So, when a director is asking for certain nuances and colours and we feel that they're phoney, but we do it because the director asks for it, that's the one that they pick in the cutting room. And I contend that when you see a movie with bad acting, don't blame the actor... blame those guys in the cutting room because they like that take.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Director
  • Colours
  • Nuances

• Colours exist for me as entities in themselves, as metaphysical beings.

  Etel Adnan
  • Exist
  • Beings
  • Colours

• Did you know that in 1900 I had the bold idea of renewing German art?.. .First of all I needed to invent a technique of grasping everything while it was in motion, and it was Rembrandts drawings in the Kupferstichkabinett in Munich that showed me how. I practiced seizing things quickly in bold strokes, wherever I was, walking and standing still.. ..and in this way I learned how to depict movement itself, and I found new forms in the ecstasy and haste of this work.. ..and to these forms was added pure colour, as pure as the sun generates it.. ..in line with Goethe's theory of colours. It makes pictures much more colorful. Making wood-cuts, which I'd learnt as a fifteen-year-old from my father, helped me to stabler and simpler forms. And armed in this way I returned to Dresden.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Art
  • Idea
  • Learned