Hue Quotes

• Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Happiness, Dream

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.473, Library of America

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• Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

  Robert Frost

  Grief, Flower, Eden

  Betsy Melvin, Tom Melvin, Robert Frost (2000). “Robert Frost's New England”, p.29, UPNE

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• A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

  Frederick Douglass

  Character, Men, Color

  Frederick Douglass (2012). “The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Heart, Eye

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.54

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• Nobody really knows her Except the chosen few Her secrets are kept hidden Behind that sun-kissed hue. If I reach out to touch her She’ll just run away My Forever and Always Will have to wait another day.

  Simone Elkeles

  Running, Waiting, Forever

  Simone Elkeles (2012). “Chain Reaction”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• Distance lends enchantment to the view.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Wisdom, Distance

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.59, Univ of California Press

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• Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

  John Milton

  Flower, Paradise On Earth, Rose

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 256

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• One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes.

  Verner Panton

  Color, Sitting, Likes

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• My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever changing view.

  Carole King

  Life, Views, Vision

  Song: Tapestry, Album: Tapestry, 1971

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• With a smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.

  John Milton

  Love, Red, Celestial

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.197

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• There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, Art Of War, Produce

  Lionel Giles', Sun Tzu (1910). “Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers”, p.14, SJ Creations Tokyo

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• You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue.

  Milan Kundera

  Past, Thinking, Different

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• I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume of the violet or the sweet simplicity of the daisy. I understood that if all the lowly flowers wished to be roses, nature would no longer be enamelled with lovely hues. And so it is in the world of souls, Our lord's living garden.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Beautiful, Sweet, Flower

  Saint Therese of Lisieux (2007). “The Story of the Soul”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Repeated similar experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from colors which it carries and therefore influences.

  Josef Albers

  Color, Influence, Carrie

  "Interaction of Color".

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• Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Light, Ice

  'King John' (1591-8) act 4, sc. 2, l. 9

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• Learn to recognize the false dawn from the true; distinguish the color of the wine from the color of the cup. Then it may be that patience and time may produce, out of the spectrum-viewing sight, true vision, and you will behold colors other than these mortal hues, you will see pearls instead of stones. Pearls, did I say? Nay more, you will become a sea, you will become a sun traveling the sky.

  Rumi

  Wine, Thoughtful, Sight

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• Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

  Thomas Campbell

  Inspirational, Nature, Distance

  Pleasures of Hope pt. 1, l. 7 (1799).

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• It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.

  W. H. Davies

  Rainbow, Lovely, Birth

  'Kingfisher' (1910)

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• Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought

  William Shakespeare

  Coward, Doe, Hamlet And Ophelia

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• The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.

  William Shakespeare

  Names, Hamlet And Ophelia, Speech

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.

  John James Audubon

  Beautiful, One Day, Dolphins

  John James Audubon (1899). “Audubon and His Journals”

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• Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.

  Charles Dickens

  Real, Heart, Optimistic

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.256

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• There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can imitate or approach. For all our artificial pigments are, even when seen under the same circumstances, dead and lightless beside her living color; nature exhibits her hues under an intensity of sunlight which trebles their brilliancy.

  John Ruskin

  Nature, Color, Effort

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters ...: pt. 1-2. Of general principles, and Of truth. 5th ed”, p.154

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• What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Animal, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.484, Delphi Classics

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• In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Color, Directors, Raw Materials

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