The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.
On the prairie one can see the colour of the air.
There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist. . . If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too distant to use as a comparison then nothing seems strange.
The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.
Any colour - so long as it's black.
There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.
A rose by any other name Would get the blame For being what it is-- The colour of a kiss, The shadow of a flame. A rose may earn another name, So call it love; So call it love I will, And love is like the sea, Which changes constantly, And yet is still The same.
As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bit crazily in school and dyed my hair every colour under the sun.
I have a fierce desire to paint colour.
Sometimes the things I learn making paintings or drawings - composition, colour, expressionism, texture - can directly influence the making of a film. Sometimes it's great that they are different, and simply taking a break from one medium to spend time with another, recharges the batteries and I feel refreshed.
Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
The ideal garden is one in which a collection of trees, shrubs and plants have been procured and allotted to the best space available and are so arranged and tended that they are seen to their advantage, each in relation to the other. Every plant, of whatever shape or size, should be chosen not only for its individual merits but for its power to enhance the charms of neighbouring plants by contrast or combination in foliage or in flower colour.
When all candels be out, all cats be grey,All thingis are then of one colour, as who sey. And this prouerbe faith, for quenching hot desyre,Foul water as soone as fayre, will quenche hot fyre.
I'm definitely not gonna make a joke about separating the whites and colours, so don't try to make me. So instead, I'll just say something like “BOOGABOOGABOOGADOBLUH I'M A PERSON BLUHBLUHBLGUHGHGGHGH”. That appeals to everybody.
Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours the surrounding space with the complementary.
Santa Monica's only walkable if death is no hurdle. The air's the wrong colour. People put sunglasses on their dogs. It's a hideous place where humans are not welcome and those who stay suffer eight kinds of brain damage.
Life without dreams is like a rainbow without colours.
The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who comes to this island is entitled to the protection of English law, whatever oppression he may have suffered and whatever may be the colour of his skin.
Black is always elegant. It is the most complete colour in the whole world, made of all the colours in the palette.