Colour Quotes

What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace.

We need to create a new breed of South Africans who love their country and love everybody, irrespective of their colour.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Broken crayons still colour the same

A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colourful, senseless and unknowing. Polka-dots can't stay alone; like the communicative life of people, two or three polka-dots become movement... Polka-dots are a way to infinity.

Comrade Blade Nzimande is complaining that EFF stole the ‘red colour’, he does not have a copyright on the ‘red colour’. There’s nothing we can steal from him because he has nothing but that skuurpot (pot scourer) face of his. Why didn’t he complain when Vodacom was red?

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

When you say to a person of colour, 'When I see you, I don't see you Black;

I just see everybody the same' think about that. You don't have the right to say to a person, 'I do not see you as you are; I want to see you as I would be more comfortable seeing you.'

Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find his highest enjoyment to arise from the continued practice of doing all in his power to promote the well-being, and happiness, of every man, woman, and child, without regard to their class, sect, party, country or colour

If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope.

Despite all the troubles of our world, in my heart I have never given up on the love in which I was brought up or on man's hope in love. In life, just as on the artist's palette, there is but one single colour that gives meaning to life and art–the colour of love

Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying, Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be. And I be, Mama.

It gives a message to people of love.

.. it does not matter what's the colour of your skin, what language do you speak, what religion do you believe in. It is that we should all consider each other as human beings and we should respect each other.

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

I think love is caramel. Sweet and fragant; always welcome. It is the gentle golden colour of a setting harvest sun; the warmth of a squeezed embrace; the easy melting of two souls into one and a taste that lingers even when everything else has melted away. Once tasted it is never forgotten.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight;

which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes.

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

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination.

Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colours. By experimenting with lighting, colours, textiles and furniture and utilizing the latest technologies, I try to show new ways to encourage people to use their phantasy and make their surroundings more exciting.

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

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.

Life without dreams is like a rainbow without colours.

Orange (colour) - Orange is the colour between yellow and red on the spectrum of visible light. Human eyes perceive orange when observing light with a dominant wavelength

Blue - primary colours of pigments in painting and traditional colour theory, as well as in the RGB colour model. It lies between violet and green on the spectrum

Trooping the Colour - Trooping the Colour is a ceremony performed by regiments of the British and Commonwealth armies. It has been a tradition of British infantry regiments

Living Colour - Living Colour is an American rock band from New York City, formed in 1984. The band currently consists of guitarist Vernon Reid, lead vocalist Corey Glover

Colour banding - Colour banding, or color banding (American English), is a problem of inaccurate colour presentation in computer graphics. In 24-bit colour modes, 8 bits

Colour It In - Colour It In is the debut album of British indie band The Maccabees. It was released in the UK on 14 May 2007. It was released on the UK iTunes Store on

Colour sergeant - Colour sergeant (CSgt or C/Sgt) is a rank of non-commissioned officer found in several armies and marine corps. Colour sergeant is a rank in the Foot Guards

Cream (colour) - Cream is the colour of the cream produced by cattle grazing on natural pasture with plants rich in yellow carotenoid pigments, some of which are incorporated

Political colour - example, the colour red symbolises left-wing ideologies in many countries (leading to such terms as "Red Army" and "Red Scare"), while the colour orange symbolizes

Perhaps we shall also have to hold in check other coloured peoples who will soon be in their certain prime, and thus preserve the world, which is the world of our blood, of our children and of our grandchildren.

The life we live is just a colourful and deposit toy.

Some of us take it so seriously and fight and cry for it. Some of us break and throw it. Either we give extreme importance, either not enough. Better to stay far from extremes.

In practice it is possible to determine directly the skin colour and hence the ethnic affiliations of the ancient Egyptians by microscopic analysis in the laboratory; I doubt if the sagacity of the researchers who have studied the question has overlooked the possibility.

No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not.

Lilacs, False Blue, White, Purple, Colour of lilac, Your great puffs of flowers Are everywhere in this my New England ... Lilacs in dooryards Holding quiet conversation with an early moon; Lilacs watching a deserted house; ... Lilacs, wind-beaten, staggering under a lopsided shock of bloom, You are everywhere.

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.