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• I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

  Winston Churchill

  Sorry, Brilliant, Poor

  Dame Mary Soames, Sir Winston Churchill (1990). “Winston Churchill: His Life as a Painter : a Memoir by His Daughter”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?

  Daniele Vare

  Horse, Flower, Sunset

  Daniele Varè (1954). “Novels of Yen-Ching”

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• I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.

  Joanne Harris

  Dream, Sound, Stories

  "This much I know: Joanne Harris". Interview with Emma John, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2010.

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• Kids are very visual, and they might not eat a food just because of its colour.

  Tom Aikens

  Kids, Might, Visuals

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• Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

  Marie Corelli

  Lovely, Delicacy, Thanks

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• I love most things in my life. I feel it's important to try and live life through adventure, colour and love.

  Gemma Cairney

  Live Life, Adventure, Important

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• If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Men, Light, Meditation

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mary Lutyens (1970). “The only revolution”, Not Avail

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• Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Light, Two

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• Color... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Thinking, Color, Clothes

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• Do not several sorts of Rays make Vibrations of several bignesses, which according to their bigness excite Sensations of several Colours, much after the manner that the Vibrations of the Air, according to their several bignesses excite Sensations of several Sounds? And particularly do not the most refrangible Rays excite the shortest Vibrations for making a Sensation of deep violet, the least refrangible the largest form making a Sensation of deep red, and several intermediate sorts of Rays, Vibrations of several intermediate bignesses to make Sensations of several intemediate Colours?

  Isaac Newton

  Air, Rays, Sound

  "Opticks". Book Isaac Newton, Query 13, 1704.

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• Think colour! Know how to imagine it!

  Gustave Moreau

  Thinking, Imagine, Know How

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• It is success that colours all in life,
  Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest.

  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

  Fool, Honest, Success In Life

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  The heart never knows the colour of the skin

  Chief Dan George

  Heart, Skins, Knows

  1974 My Heart Soars.

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• Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.

  Winston Churchill

  Lonely, Light, The End Of The Day

  Dame Mary Soames, Sir Winston Churchill (1990). “Winston Churchill: His Life as a Painter : a Memoir by His Daughter”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Life without dreams is like a rainbow without colours.

  Greyson Chance

  Dream, Rainbow, Follow Your Dreams

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• Any colour - so long as it's black.

  Henry Ford

  Science, Engineering, Long

  In Allan Nevins Ford (1957) vol. 2, ch. 15

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• New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

  Charles Dickens

  Mind, New Thought

  Charles Dickens (2006). “David Copperfield”, p.762, Penguin

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• The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colours more vibrant, more balanced and beaming.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Trying, Ugly, Ill

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• Botswana is also the only country in the world with a colour in its flag meant to represent rain (a sort of blue-grey). Not many people know this.

  Terry Pratchett

  Country, Rain, Blue

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• In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is the colour of mourning.

  Vincent Tan

  Blue, Mourning, Joy

  "Cardiff City dare to dream after play-off heartache of recent seasons" by Stuart James, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2013.

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• I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.

  Abe Ajay

  Color, Looks, Use

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• Anything can be any color at any time depending on what color everything else is at the time.

  Keith Crown

  Color

  Keith Crown (1967). “Crown: Keith Crown, Painter : University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 30-July 21, 1967”

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• Fashion should be something that in the morning, when you open your window, you say, "Oh fantastic, sun!" Then you take your shower, you say, "OK fantastic, which colour I wear today because I feel happy?" This should be fashion.

  Roberto Cavalli

  Fashion, Morning, Today

  "King of bling". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2003.

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• Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force. When less color and less intense color is present, trace amounts and subtle differences become highly significant and are strongly felt.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Powerful, Differences, Color

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• Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

  Claude Monet

  Motivational, Art, Color

  Claude Monet (1969). “Claude Monet”

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