Colour Quotes - Page 14

• Achilles too staggered a moment. He felt his soul change colour. Blood pooled at his feet, and though he continued to stand upright and triumphant in the sun, his spirit set off on its own downward path and approached the boarders of an unknown region.

  David Malouf

  Blood, Feet, Soul

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• That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a movie on your phone in the middle of Times Square.

  Michel Gondry

  Squares, Phones, Light

  "Michel Gondry: 'That's My New Policy - Self-censorship'" By Nick Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2009.

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• When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Dark, Russia, Remember

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• It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the colour of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fall, Kids, Eye

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing struck them as a decorative display opportunity tragically lost.

  Peter York

  Book, Opportunity, Rooms

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• The White Company offers its loyalists an altogether better, whiter world. The White people have edited out any colours that aren't white, off-white, milk chocolate, grey, taupe or black. They can't be doing with Johnnie Boden's cheery Sloane jokes, his spots and stripes, his occasional 'if it's me, it's U' loud colours.

  Peter York

  White, People, Chocolate

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• His icebergs are strange monuments with a symbol embodied in their form and their colours. They do not freeze you when you look at them, for they are not of ice, they are what Lawren Harris feels and thinks after he has contemplated them

  J. D. Salinger

  Thinking, Ice, Imagination

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• Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are colours in the Turkey carpet out of which a picture might be made. There are words in Mr. Montgomery's writing which, when disposed in certain orders and combinations,have made, and will make again, good poetry. But, as they now stand, they seem to be put together on principle in such a manner as to give no image of anything in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Writing, Order, Turkeys

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• Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing.

  Winston Churchill

  Fun, Lovely, Looks

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.

  William Blake

  Eye, Criticism, Shadow

  William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.655, Univ of California Press

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• I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.

  Pablo Picasso

  Preparation, Use, Canvas

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white is stays for ever, Their red it never dies; But Phyllida, my Phillida! Her colour comes and goes; It trembles to a lily,-- It wavers to a rose.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Beauty, Eye, White

  'The Ladies of St James's' (1883)

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• The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

  Edmund Burke

  Power, Men, World

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.23

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• Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours the surrounding space with the complementary.

  Henri Matisse

  Space, Canvas, Has Beens

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• All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Earth, Miles, Painter

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

  Georges Braque

  Form

  "Braque". Book by Edwin Mullins, Thames and Hudson, 1968, p. 75, 1968.

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• But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour, odour, texture... And if we continue to dwell in thought on this world... the whole scope of observation is dwarfed into the narrow chamber of the individual mind.

  Walter Pater

  Play, Mind, Magic

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

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Form, Masters, Marrying

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• Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Reflection, Reality, Mirrors

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2734, Delphi Classics

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• I had a new idea in my head... this time it's just simply my bedroom, only here colour is to do everything, and, giving by its simplification a grander style to things, is to be suggestive here of rest or of sleep in general. In a word, to look at the picture ought to rest the brain or rather the imagination.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Sleep, Ideas, Giving

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• Perfumes, colours and sounds echo one another.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Echoes, Sound, Perfume

  1857 Les Fleurs du mal,'Correspondances'.

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• That the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction; and that a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under colour of that instrument, is the rightful remedy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Independent, Judging, Nullification

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• You haven't learned life's lesson very well if you haven't noticed that you can give the tone or colour, or decide the reaction you want of people in advance. It's unbelievable simply. If you want them to take an interest in you, take an interest in them first. If you want to make them nervous, become nervous yourself...It's as simple as that. People will treat you as you treat them. It's no secret. Look about you. You can prove it with the next person you meet.

  Winston Churchill

  Simple, People, Giving

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• Colour has taken hold of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me forever. That is the significance of this blessed moment

  Paul Klee

  Blessed, Taken, Forever

  Paul Klee (1966). “Paul Klee : (1879 - 1940)”

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

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Use, Worst

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