Best Colour Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 13

“I had been doing wall drawings, but they were always black and white. Then in 1993 I painted all the walls of a room to make an installation and as soon as I saw the colour on the walls, it changed my whole life.”

Whole Black White Rooms Saws Changed Wall Drawing Whole Life Colour Black And White Installation

Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“In the studio, it took me a long time to work out how to make paintings that had the intensity that I was able to create by painting whole rooms. There is a very limited number of colours but there are many variations. I decided to use the purest palette that I could.”

Long Whole Use Able Rooms Numbers Painting Long Time Decided Work Out Studios Colour Intensity Variation Palette

Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“I decided I should use the most obvious colours - the basic colours with simple names: red, purple, yellow, pink. I don't distort the objects, I don't change the objects, I draw them exactly as they are. I do the opposite with the colours.”

Should Use Names Simple Objects Draws Red Decided Opposites Obvious Colour Yellow Purple Don't Change

Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“The first exhibition that I used bright colours in painting the room was at a gallery in Paris, and there were seven rooms in the gallery. It was very nice gallery, not very big rooms, around the courtyard, it was a very French space. So I painted each room in different colour. When people came to the exhibition, I saw they came with a smile. Everybody smiles - this is something I never saw in my work before.”

People Firsts Different Bigs Used Space Rooms Saws Nice Painting Seven Paris Colour Gallery Very Nice Exhibitions Different Colours

Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.”

World Humans Animal Effects Objects Taste Colour Atoms Humans And Animals

Author:Catherine Wilson

“As I've got older, I've got more understanding of relationships and how they work - but every single relationship has different dynamics, so you can't paint everyone with the same colour.”

Different Understanding Paint Colour Dynamics Single Relationship

Author:Phil Collins

“Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about "welfare mothers" - a code phrase for people of colour.”

People Long Mother Talking Versions Code Welfare Phrases Colour Long Ago

Author:Adam Hochschild

“My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills about composition, light, colour, the formal attributes of images.”

Light Father Painting Skills Photographer Colour Attributes Composition Formal

Author:Patricia Piccinini

“I have heterochromia, meaning that one eye has two split colours. It's a diagonal cut in half. It's amazing how many people don't know that until they meet me and we talk long enough for them to see it.”

People Knows Long Two Enough Eye Half Cutting Colour Splits Diagonal

Author:Dan Payne

“I'm from east LA. I don't see colour.”

East Colour

Author:will.i.am

“The only colour I see is this wonderful green and blue planet.”

Wonderful Planets Blue Green Colour Blue Planet

Author:will.i.am

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

Might Kids Visuals Colour

Author:Tom Aikens

“I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.”

Age Born Colour Seventies Haircuts Bad Haircuts

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“All the arguments there are against Malcolm [Turnbull] - and there are many - the one thing in which he is impeccable and why I would support him in this is that he has an absolutely impeccable record on the question of colour and race. People often wondered why. What I see as a possible explanation is [that] he came from a very wealthy family - a 'squattocracy' - and he had private education at home and then he went to boarding school at Melbourne Grammar School, one of those lead schools in Australia.”

People Home School Race Support Records One Thing Argument Explanation Colour Australia Wealthy Grammar Impeccable Melbourne Grammar School

Author:Bob Hawke

“The Bahamas are gorgeous. The deep trench in the ocean floor called the Tongue of the Ocean, which comes between the islands, is the most beautiful deep indigo colour.”

Beautiful Ocean Tongue Islands Colour Gorgeous Trenches Indigo Bahamas

Author:Chris Hadfield

“We see in colour all the time. Everything around us is in colour. Black and white is therefore immediately an interpretation of the world, rather than a copy.”

World Black White Colour Interpretation Copies Black And White

Author:Michael Kenna

“I don't have anything against colour. It is just not my first preference. I have always found black and white photographs to be quieter and more mysterious than those made in colour.”

Firsts Made Found Black White Photograph Mysterious Colour Black And White Preference

Author:Michael Kenna

“For me, the subtlety of black and white inspires the imagination of the individual viewer to complete the picture in the mind's eye. It doesn't attempt to compete with the outside world. I believe it is calmer and gentler than colour, and persists longer in our visual memory.”

World Mind Believe Eye Individual I Believe Black Imagination Memories White Inspire Visuals Colour Black And White Persist Viewers Subtlety Outside World Calmer

Author:Michael Kenna

“For a while Australians were desperately trying to be cosmopolitan. I think it is a pointless exercise. Australian novels are those rooted in Australia, with Australian landscapes and colours. My work has always had bits of Western Australia in it. It is always here. The world comes to us.”

Thinking World Trying Bits Novel Exercise Western Landscape Colour Australia Rooted Australian Pointless

Author:Tim Winton

“My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is seen as black in America. So that's how I regard myself.”

Persons Made Different Able America Culture Black Race Regard Backgrounds Relate Colour Broads Different Cultures Mixed Race

Author:Alicia Keys

“Public service does not necessarily mean service in the House of Commons, and public service is not synonymous with partisan political activity. It comes in a thousand colours, but the common denominator is: it's not about me - it's about we.”

Mean Doe Political House Common Thousand Activity Colour Public Service Partisans Common Denominator House Of Commons

Author:Michael Ignatieff

“In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.”

Knows Black Paris Colour Ukraine

Author:Olga Kurylenko

“It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.”

Men Long Matter Motivational Hair Skins Colour

Author:John Lennon

“The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.”

Way Mind Intellectual Skins Connected Intellect Discrimination African American Colour Anti Racist

Author:Benjamin Banneker

“Even if you don't like colours, you will end up having something red. For everyone who doesn't like colour, red is a symbol of a lot of culture. It has a different signification but never a bad one.”

Ifs Different Ends Culture Red Symbols Colour Colour Red

Author:Christian Louboutin

“I have always loved tartans - such an ornamented type of weaving, so vivid in colour, and such a masculine aspect. But actually, I think tartans can be feminine or masculine.”

Thinking Type Aspect Colour Feminine Masculine Vivid Weaving Tartan

Author:Christian Louboutin

“There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.”

Lines Areas Colour

Author:Edouard Manet

“Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.”

Two Matter Spiritual Principles Red Female Blue Males Heavy Sensual Gentle Colour Yellow Brutal Cheerful Red And Yellow Blue And Yellow

Book:Marc

Source: Marc

“Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.”

Whole Rose Colour

Author:Syd Barrett

“What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.”

Needs Two Running Hours Rounds Passionate Likes Loud Colour Opera Savages Unpredictable Murmuring

Author:Ian Mcewan

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

Long Art Motivational Joy Color Painting Obsession Painter Colour Torment Deathbed Crayon Bright Colors

Book:Claude Monet

Source: Claude Monet

“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.”

Way Lows Scales Colour Flats Trumpets Mulligans Tubas

Author:Gerry Mulligan

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.”

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe

“I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any more colour, it looks like I've been smacked in the mouth!”

Ifs Looks Mouths Add Lips Colour

Author:Kate Beckinsale

“Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.”

Art Emotion Design Color Features Colour Favorite Color Original Art Beautiful Colors

Book:Picasso on art: a selection of views

Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views

“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.”

Two Pain Artist Next Color Painting Paint Colour Crayon Colors Of Life

Author:Pablo Picasso

“I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.”

Film Drama Colour Bollywood

Author:Brad Pitt

“I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.”

People Country Wanted Jobs Colour Castes

Author:Sidney Poitier

“I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.'”

People Thinking Way Mean Book Earth Cities Growing Up Growing Magic Jokes Series Guides Destroyed Colour Galaxy Really Mean Discworld Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Hitchhikers Guide

Author:Terry Pratchett

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

Player Car Function Colour Engines Bass Bass Players

Author:Suzi Quatro

“I always saw Michael Gambon wearing madly psychedelic socks, and I always thought that's it is one of the few areas where men can really express colour and have a bit of a dandyish quality to their outfit.”

Men Bits Quality Saws Areas Colour Psychedelic Sock

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.”

Together Nations Black White Path Difficulty South Profit Indian Revolutionary Colour Wealthy Elites South Africa Rainbow Segregation

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we're wearing - if it's red top, white shorts, white socks or black socks. Then I lie in bed the night before the game and visualise myself scoring goals or doing well.”

Ifs Men Wells Lying Night Asks Games Goal Black White Bed Red Preparation Colour Sock Shorts Scoring Goals

Author:Wayne Rooney

“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.”

Mind Art Color Colour Thoughtful Thoughtfulness Colors Of Life Very Thoughtful Thoughtful Mind

Author:John Ruskin

“Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself in the astral world, visible to the astral sight.”

World Persons Feelings Sight Colour Visible Surround Flash Translate Auras

Book:Karma

Source: Karma

“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.”

Men Found Alive Colour Texture True Worth

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“If I'm feeling down in the dumps, or like I need a pop of colour, I'll put on MAC's Lipstick in Lady Danger. I discovered red lipstick when I did the Oscar season: Chanel sent me one and I realised how classic and glamorous it can be.”

Ifs Needs Feelings Danger Red Seasons Pops Classic Colour Oscars Realised Glamorous Lipstick Macs Dump Red Lipstick Feeling Down

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“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!”

Different Hair Radical Teenager Colour Load Haircuts Different Colours

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.”

Knows Artist Song Musician Paint Colour Realised

Author:Ed Sheeran

“The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.”

Different Shows Shapes Moon Colour Elegant Nuance

Author:Arthur Smith

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