#colour

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #colour




The world is a wide place where we stumble like children learning to walk. The world is a bright mosaic where we learn like children to see, where our little blurry eyes strive greedily to take in as much light and love and colour and detail as they can. The world is a coaxing whisper when the wind lips the trees, when the sea licks the shore, when animals burrow into earth and people look up at the sympathetic stars. The world is an admonishing roar when gales chase rainclouds over the plains and whip up ocean waves, when people crowd into cities or intrude into dazzling jungles. What right have we to carry our desperate mouths up mountains or into deserts? Do we want to taste rock and sand or do we expect to make impossible poems from space and silence? The vastness at least reminds us how tiny we are, and how much we don't yet understand. We are mere babes in the universe, all brothers and sisters in the nursery together. We had better learn to play nicely before we're allowed out..... And we want to go out, don't we? ..... Into the distant humming welcoming darkness.


Jay Woodman


#babes #brothers #children #cities #colour

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


#colours #consider #dependence #forth #instance

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.


Ian Mcewan


#colours #confirmed #discovered #i #likes

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.


Paul Cezanne


#colour #coloured #distinct #drawing #everything

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


John Dyer


#cleaner #colours #energy #i #improved

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


#colour #colours #i #impossible #like

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


#brazilian #college #colours #decided #design

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.


Robert Bridges


#colour #garden #i #know #rainbow

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 #colours #constituent #destroyed #each

I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.


Peter Wright


#alive #been #colour #effect #felt