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Colour Quotes

Jun 2
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Colour is an infinite thing...

F Schuyler Mathews


Blue and white is always right.

 


Colours are the smiles of nature.

Leigh Hunt


Neutrals are another form of medication.

Alexandra Stoddard


Colour is enslaved by line, that becomes writing.

Yves Klein


Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

Claude Monet


Nature always wears the colours of the spirit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Colours fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

Edward Thorndike


Among these kinds of beauty the eye takes most delight in colours.

Joseph Addison


One of the strongest elements of beauty in Nature is her colours.

F Schuyler Mathews


In fact, why do two colours, put one next to the other, sing?

Pablo Picasso


Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colours.

Oscar de la Renta


I have solved what colour is, however; I still have no idea about what line is.

Leonardo da Vinci


The more different colours of paint you’ve got, the more interesting your menu is going to become.

Rodney Dunn


To this day, colour is an enormous delight to me. It means experience, adventure of all kinds.

Harry Behn


As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas, and colours enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

Vincent Van Gogh


Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then colour is just a gift to the drawing.

Fernando Botero


I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.

Georgia O’Keeffe


Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them - in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.

John Ruskin


Usually I love the colours of my work; once I’ve adjusted them somehow everything clicks into place. The colours complete the piece and make it sing. Then I know it’s done.

 


Man’s highest inspirations come from nature. A world without colour would seem dead. colour is life. Light is the mother of colour. Light reveals to us the spirit and living soul of the world through colours.

Alma Thomas


Colour is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my efforts to create an equivalent with paint colour for the world, life as I see it.

Georgia O'Keeffe


A colour, no doubt, is a trifle in itself, and only has its full value when it is in contrast or harmony with other colours.... each colour has an expression and a character peculiar to itself, and each is enlivened as it approaches its lightest shade by its mixture with white, just as it is saddened and perishes as it approaches its darkest shade by its mixture with black.

Charles Blanc

 

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