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Tag Name "Colour" (553)

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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
Edwin Land
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Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life
Fernand Leger
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Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.
Wassily Kandinsky
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Colour is the skin of the world.
Sonia Delaunay
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Colours are what drive me most strongly.
Stevie Smith
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Colour disturbs people. I am confident in black, not in light. This dark side of life is attractive to me forever and from the beginning. I am a lazy designer when it comes to colour.
Yohji Yamamoto
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Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.
Marion Milner
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Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on form and outline, on where that is put.
William Blake
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Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind those who are blind to blue have no consciousness of yellow. This law holds good for all mental phenomena it is a fundamental condition of consciousness.
Otto Weininger
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Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.
Orhan Pamuk
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Colour is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it To work with colour is to become acutely aware of the insufficiency of language and theory – which is both disturbing and pleasurable.
David Batchelor
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Colours shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over the earth on rainy mornings only.
Haruki Murakami
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Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour
Henri Matisse
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Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace.
Christian Dior
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Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.
Walter J. Phillips
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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
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Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings.
Matthew Collings
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Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.
Georges Braque
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Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.
James Clerk Maxwell
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I spend a lot of my time looking at blue, The colour of my room and my mood.
Kate Bush
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I dream in colour, and its always very surreal. My dream world is complete Hieronymus Bosch and Dali. I love it, I look forward to it every night
John Lennon
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Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?
Keith Henson
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The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.
John Locke
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Wherever you are in the world, there's always something about the Australian light. There's something about the sharpness of it, something about the clarity of it, something about the colours of Australia. And hopefully, something optimistic about Australian painting too.
Ken Done
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