Colour Quotes - Page 8

• Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan.

  Asif Ali Zardari

  Issues, Political, Democracy

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• Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.

  Peter Temple

  Football, Class, May

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• The sensation of colour cannot be accounted for by the physicist's objective picture of light-waves.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Light, Color, Wave

  "Mind and Matter". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1958.

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• I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.

  Francis Bacon

  I Like You, Sunset, Glitter

  David Sylvester, Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon”, Pantheon

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• There is an investment of your own life experience in something as innocent as colour.

  Stephen De Staebler

  Experience, Investment, Innocent

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• No one knows the colour of a flower
  till it is broken.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Flower, Knowledge, Broken

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.381, New Directions Publishing

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• It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours. Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.

  John Berger

  Artist, Unity, Together

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.71, Vintage

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• When I look in the mirror, I see my late mother: I have her nose, her dark eyes - I call them chocolate eyes - I have her colouring, and my hair is greying the same way, although I use colour and she didn't.

  Marie Osmond

  Mother, Eye, Dark

  "What I see in the mirror" by Marie Osmond, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2012.

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• For many ages it has been allowed by sensible men, Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuit prius in sensu: That is, There is nothing in the understanding which was not first perceived by some of the senses. All the knowledge which we naturally have is originally derived from our senses. And therefore those who want any sense cannot have the least knowledge or idea of the objects of that sense; as they that never had sight have not the least knowledge or conception of light or colours.

  John Wesley

  Men, Light, Sight

  John Wesley, John Emory (1835). “The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc”, p.406

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• I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?

  Peter Wright

  Looks, Outcomes, Painting

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• Religion is a wizard, a sibyl . . . She faces the wreck of worlds, and prophesies restoration. She faces a sky blood-red with sunset colours that deepen into darkness, and prophesies dawn. She faces death, and prophesies life.

  Felix Adler

  Religious, Sunset, Blood

  Felix Adler (1956). “Life and destiny”

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• In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.

  Gabriel Lippmann

  Layers, Infinity, Sensitive

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• I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.

  Peter Wright

  Life, Years, Three

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• I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour.

  John Dyer

  Insomnia, Use, Impossible

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• Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter and critic Fairfield Porter, wrote in a 1960 review of [Porter's] colour photographs: 'There is no subject and background, every corner is alive,' and this suggests what an ecological aesthetic might look like.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Brother, Environmental, Looks

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• The crowd...a cacophony of colour

  Peter Drury

  Football, Cacophony, Crowds

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• But the most dangerous Hypocrite in a Common-Wealth, is one who leaves the Gospel for the sake of the Law: A Man compounded of Law and Gospel, is able to cheat a whole Country with his Religion, and then destroy them under Colour of Law: And here the Clergy are in great Danger of being deceiv'd, and the People of being deceiv'd by the Clergy, until the Monster arrives to such Power and Wealth, that he is out of the reach of both, and can oppress the People without their own blind Assistance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Hypocrite, Men

  Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Louis Ketcham (2003). “The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin”, p.5, Hackett Publishing

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• Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.

  Tessanne Chin

  Issues, Race, Jamaica

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

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• Know and watch your heart. It's pure but emotions come to colour it.

  Ajahn Chah

  Heart, Watches, Emotion

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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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• 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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• There are conservative people in all colours in America.

  Adepero Oduye

  America, People, Conservative

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• Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  America, Issues, Class

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• Fill your plate with the colours of the rainbow. What pleases the eye, pleases the body.

  Deepak Chopra

  Healing, Health, Eye

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• Jake Green isn't just Jake Green. Jake represents all of us. The colour green is the central column of the spectrum and the name Jake has all sorts of numerical values. All things come back to him within the film's world of cons and games.

  Guy Ritchie

  Games, Names, World

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