Top Colour Quotes
Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form.
Victor Vasarely
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
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
J. B. Priestley
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
Paul Cezanne
There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
Edouard Manet
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In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.
Gabriel Lippmann 
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Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.
Paul Morand 
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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
Bram Stoker 
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The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood.
Alice Meynell 
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Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!
Marie Corelli 
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Nearly all the Brazilian supporters are wearing yellow shirts - it's a fabulous kaleidoscope of colour.
John Motson 
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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.
Franz Marc 
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Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.
Fernand Leger 
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I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
Robert Bridges 
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