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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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• 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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• 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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• Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular and strenuous demands upon us...It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable to the colour of our wallpaper and that our sense of purpose may be derailed by an unfortunate bedspread

  Alain de Botton

  Mean, Purpose, Demand

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• What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself, -- it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of colour and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men -- who all feel differently.

  Carl Maria von Weber

  Art, Passion, Love Is

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

  Pauline Hanson

  Believe, Skins, Determine

  "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.

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• Nail the colours to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and, therefore, that is what we must do, and do it now. What colours? The colours of Christ, the work He has given us to do- the evangelization of all the unevangelized.

  Charles Studd

  Nails, Missionary, Christ

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• Now's the time when children's noses
  All become as red as roses
  And the colour of their faces
  Makes me think of orchard places
  Where the juicy apples grow,
  And tomatoes in a row.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Children, Thinking, Apples

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.647, Delphi Classics

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• We are fighting so that insults may no longer rule our countries, martyred and scorned for centuries, so that our peoples may never more be exploited by imperialists not only by people with white skin, because we do not confuse exploitation or exploiters with the colour of men's skins; we do not want any exploitation in our countries, not even by black people.

  Amilcar Cabral

  Country, Fighting, Men

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• 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

  Teacher, Children, Lying

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

  Victoria Wood

  Want, Thirteen, My Friends

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

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• One arranges flowers as the spirit moves you; to obey some inner prompting to put this colour with that, to have brilliance here, line there, a sense of opulence in this place or sparseness in that; to suit your surroundings, your mood, the weather, the occasion. In a word, to do as you please, just as, if you could, you might paint a picture.

  Constance Spry

  Flower, Moving, Weather

  Constance Spry (1940). “Constance Spry's Garden Notebook”

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• In my soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colours of a rainbow.

  Papiya Ghosh

  Beautiful, Children, Attitude

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• Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.

  Paul Morand

  Time, Stress, Speed

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• Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artists is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful - as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony

  James Whistler

  Beautiful, Wise, Artist

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

  J. B. Priestley

  Fire, Order, Sound

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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