Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Colours Quotes

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others. 
Albert Schweitzer 

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 

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. 
Gilbert K. Chesterton 

When I was a teenager, I was really into hair; I dyed it different colours and had loads of haircuts. I shaved my head when I was 17 - it was pretty radical! 
Chloe Sevigny 

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. 
Alexis de Tocqueville 

I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time. 
John Dyer 

As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours. 
LL Cool J 

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid. 
Lucian Freud 

Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours. 
Syd Barrett 

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet. 
Gerry Mulligan 

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. 
Elizabeth Bowen 

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours. 
Suzi Quatro 

I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me. 
John Barton 

When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that, and feeling like I was losing control. 
Steve Buscemi 

I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work. 
John Dyer 

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 

I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work. 
John Dyer 

While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest. 
John Dyer 

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep. 
Matthew Henry 

They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind. 
Owen Hart


U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone. 
Bono 

On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn't agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing. 
Julie Harris 

These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen. 
William Henry Ashley 

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling. 
Mark Millar 

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes. 
Ernst Mach 

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth. 
Ernst Mach 

As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish. 
Eberhard Weber 

I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of breaking down and conforming, I stood firm. That is also probably why I was unhappy. 
Christina Hendricks 

The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself. 
Roger Penrose 

I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music. 
Anthony Minghella 

It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow. 
Luke Treadaway 

I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener. 
Arvo Part 

You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in. 
Majel Barrett 

The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image. 
Gabriel Lippmann 

Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference. 
Ruggiero Ricci 

There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends. 
Silvia Cartwright 

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers. 
Henry Walter Bates 

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order. 
Maurice Denis 

I don't like James Bond. They made him a super hero, but he is just an agent, a human being. In my movies, secret agents are more realistic, I didn't want to portray them in the most glowing colours. 
King Hu 

I have always wanted my colours to sing. 
Paul Delvaux

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