Colour Quotes - Page 10

• I've always been into dark colours.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Dark

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• There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world.

  Peter James

  Fun, People, World

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• Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.

  Anish Kapoor

  Levels, Red, Grew Up

  Interview with John Tusa, anishkapoor.com. 2003.

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• I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive.

  Jennifer Morrison

  White, Navy, Black

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.

  Ron Moody

  Night, Training, Needs

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• There are conservative people in all colours in America.

  Adepero Oduye

  America, People, Conservative

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• The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain.

  Paul Gauguin

  Confidence, Landscape, Violent

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• Golden is a surface colour.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Golden, Surface

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe, Linda L. McAlister, Margarete Schättle (2007). “Remarks on Colour/Bemerkungen Uber Die Farben”, Univ of California Press

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• For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that.

  Isaac Newton

  Rays, Speak, Disposition

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• An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour sensations. So that light does not exist for the painter.

  Paul Cezanne

  Light, Sight, Doe

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• Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

  Paul Cezanne

  Mean, Drawing, Giving

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• Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle which regulates both the great and the little in the study of a painter.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Principles, May, Littles

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1837). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait”, p.52

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• I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Country, Art, Thinking

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• With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Queens, Years, Black

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• What do I want to express? The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something additional, a breath that draws your breath into its breathing, a heartbeat that pounds on yours, a recognition of the oneness of all things.

  Emily Carr

  Mean, Oneness, Space

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.293, D & M Publishers

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• No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.

  John Singer Sargent

  Dabs, Want, Paint

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• Black is a colour of power and strength.

  Hayden Fry

  Strength, Black, Power And Strength

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• Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension of colour, texture and formal relations; and if we strive to organize these elements, it is not with the idea of increasing the knowledge of the mind, but rather in order to intensify the pleasure of the senses.

  Herbert Read

  Order, Ideas, Mind

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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

  Mark Rothko

  Form, Not Interested

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• Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

  Pablo Picasso

  Pain, Artist, Color

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• Life's a choice: you can live in black and white, or you can live in colour. I'll take every shade of the rainbow and the gazillion in between!

  Karen Marie Moning

  Black And White, Rainbow, Choices

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.155, Delacorte Press

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• Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the book it's like going to the theatre. First you see the curtain. Then it's pulled aside and the show begins.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Dark, Blue

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.60, Scholastic Inc.

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• She is standing on my lids And her hair is in my hair She has the colour of my eye She has the body of my hand In my shade she is engulfed As a stone against the sky She will never close her eyes And she does not let me sleep And her dreams in the bright day Make the suns evaporate And me laugh cry and laugh Speak when I have nothing to say

  Paul Eluard

  Dream, Sleep, Eye

  Paul Eluard, “L'Amoureuse”

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• I wouldn't know what to do with [colour]. Colour to me is too real. It's limiting. It doesn't allow too much of a dream. The more you throw black into a colour, the more dreamy it gets… Black has depth. It's like a little egress; you can go into it, and because it keeps on continuing to be dark, the mind kicks in, and a lot of things that are going on in there become manifest. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.

  David Lynch

  Dream, Real, Dark

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• And what colour do you suppose the inner depths of your soul are, Will Herondale?' 'Mauve,' said Will.

  Cassandra Clare

  Soul, Depth, Said

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