Colour Quotes - Page 32

• Do some interesting things that you have never done before! Add more colours to your life; enrich your existence with every kind of oddities!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Oddities, Interesting

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• While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Art, Dark, Tragedy

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• Fine colour implies a unified relationship, in which each part is subordinate to the whole, and the transitions between them are felt to be as precious and beautiful as the colours themselves. In fact, the colours themselves must be continuously modified and broken as part of the transition.

  Kenneth Clark

  Beautiful, Broken, Transition

  Kenneth Clark (1973). “The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art”

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• Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Color, Facts

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• The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.

  John Locke

  Pain, Loss, Shapes

  John Locke (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of John Locke (Illustrated)”, p.1518, Delphi Classics

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• Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in spring, it lights the glowworm's lamp, it wakens the song of birds, and inspires the poet's lay. Even inanimate Nature seems to feel the spell, and flowers glow with the richest colours.

  John Lubbock

  Song, Spring, Flower

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• When the light of the sun shines through a prism it is broken into beautiful colours, and when the prism is shattered, still the light remains. So does the life of life shine resplendent in the forms of our friends, and so, when their forms are broken, still their life remains; and in that life we are united with them; for the life of their life is also our life, and we are one with them by ties indissoluble.

  Felix Adler

  Beautiful, Ties, Light

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.

  Allan Kaprow

  Gum, Teach, Bubbles

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• My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can convey the essence of life.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Lying, Light, Expression

  "Art of the 20th century, Part 1". Book by Karl Ruhrberg, p. 178, 2000.

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• I'm very interested in how colour and shape are perceived.

  Wanda Koop

  Shapes, Interest

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• The art of British Columbia's native Indians played a big role in inspiring my creativity... the simplicity of the images, the graciousness of the lines and curves, and the emotional impact of the bright simple primary colours.

  Joe Average

  Art, Creativity, Simple

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• The Mackenzie had never met folk so poor in story and song and legends, and it moved him to a pity that pricked at his eyes. Without that tapestry of colour and words and ritual, what was life but eating and mating, sleeping and moving your bowels? All of them good and necessary, but not enough; and they themselves needed that framework too, to give them meaning.

  S.M. Stirling

  Song, Moving, Eye

  "The Sword of the Lady". Book by S. M. Stirling, 2009.

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• The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.

  David Harvey

  Snakes, Skins, Peculiar

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• Do you know why the leaves change colour?... Before a tree sheds a leaf it pumps it full of all the poison it can't rid itself of otherwise. That red there--that's a man's skin blotching with burst veins after an assassin spikes his last meal with roto-weed. The poison spreading through him before he dies.

  Mark Lawrence

  Weed, Men, Tree

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• Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Creativity, Sadness, Artist

  Andrew Forbes, David Henley, Okakura Kakuzo “The Illustrated Book of Tea”

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• One can derive the same fun from print-making as from making mud pies and great subtlety can be achieved through the use of transparent inks, half-tone screens and even accidental colour combinations, which is often where the art hides.

  Ralph Steadman

  Art, Fun, Pie

  "The Joke's Over". Book by Ralph Steadman, 2006.

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• [Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even nasty. But Beckford could plead sufficient "local colour" for it, and a contrast, again almost Shakespearean, between the flickering farce atrocities of the beginning and the sombre magnificence of the end. Beckford's claims, in fact, rest on the half-score or even half-dozen pages towards the end: but these pages are hard to parallel in the later literature of prose fiction.

  William Thomas Beckford

  Fiction, Half, Literature

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• It is a myth that style can't be learnt. It's all about dressing for your body shape, following the rules and wearing colours that suit your skin tone.

  Susannah Constantine

  Skin Tone, Style, Skins

  "Mistresses of the makeover". Interview with Cathrin Schaer, www.nzherald.co.nz. February 19, 2008.

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• Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable, imperative need for release by means of an appropriate act of creation: in the rhythm, form, colour and mood of a picture.

  Lyonel Feininger

  Mean, Expression, Mind

  1917 Letter to Paul Westheim, quoted in Wolf-Dieter Dube The Expressionists (1972).

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• In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.

  Adolph Gottlieb

  Powerful, Expression, Violence

  "bstract Expressionism Creators and Critics". Book edited by Clifford Ross, Abrams Publishers New York, 1990.

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• My art in the last period has all been in small format, but my paintings have become even deeper and more spiritual, speaking truly through colour. Feeling that because of my illness I would not be able to paint very much longer, I worked like a man obsessed on these little 'Meditations' (a long series of small paintings he made during the last years of his life, with as main motif the schema of a face, ed.). And now I leave these small but, to me, important works to the future and to people who love art.

  Alexej von Jawlensky

  Spiritual, Art, Men

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• Colour is the ultimate in art. It is still and will always remain a mystery to us, we can only apprehend it intuitively in flowers.

  Philipp Otto Runge

  Art, Flower, Mystery

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• So quiet and subtle is the beauty of December that escapes the notice of many people their whole lives through. Colour gives way to form: every branch distinct, in a delicate tracery against the sky. New vistas, obscured all Summer by leafage, now open up.

  Flora Thompson

  Summer, Sky, People

  "The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside". Book by Flora Thompson. December Chapter, 1986.

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• I had been painting Kate Moss for a long time, both before the time of her crisis and during it. I felt very strongly for her - she's a hard-working mum and it seemed as if suddenly the world turned against her. Holy water cannot help you now is painted in very warm pretty colours.

  Stella Vine

  Hard Work, Long, Water

  "My Home: Stella Vine, Artist" by Tessa Williams-Akoto, www.independent.co.uk. November 30, 2005.

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• I know the colour rose, and it is lovely, But not when it ripens in a tumour; And healing greens, leaves and grass, so springlike, In limbs that fester are not springlike.

  Dannie Abse

  Healing, Rose, Lovely

  'Pathology of Colours' (1968)

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