#colour

I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of breaking down and conforming, I stood firm. That is also probably why I was unhappy. ↗

— Christina Hendricks

#also #breaking #colours #conforming #different

When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#always #because #came #colour #curtains

.. the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ... ↗

— Stephen King

#colors #colours #sunlight #beauty

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#comes #dangerous #fine #gay #many

Tonight the sun has died like an Emperor ... great scarlet arcs of silk ... saffron ... green ... crimson ... and the blaze of Venus to remind one of the absolute and the infinite ... and along the lower rim of beauty lay the hard harsh line of the hills ... ↗

— John Coldstream

#description #imagery #natural-world #silk #sunset

There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends. ↗

— Silvia Cartwright

#character #colours #courage #emerge #friends

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#although #balanced #build #colour #general

Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water. ↗

— Fernand Leger

#element #fire #just #live #man

When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

#appears #because #colour #light #reflection

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#attributes #body #colours #combinations #elements