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Quotes About Colour

The motivation will always be there to change the colour of the medal in Paris.
~ P. R. Sreejesh
Not a look, not a gesture of Valerie Saintclair's but expressed drama. She seemed to exhale an atmosphere of romance. A scarlet flannel dressing gown covered her feet—a homely garment in all conscience; but the charm of her personality invested it with an exotic flavour, and it seemed an Eastern robe of glowing colour.
~ Agatha Christie
I remember being interviewed about my first novel, 'The Colour of Memory.' They kept using the expression 'your first novel,' and I said, 'No, I object to that phrase, because this is it for me.'
~ Geoff Dyer
What I love is this idea of a wardrobe, the idea that we're establishing certain signatures and updating them, that a change in colour or fabric is enough.
~ Phoebe Philo
Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!
~ Marie Corelli
Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.
~ John Ruskin
The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.
~ Oscar Wilde
The black people's struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of Africa, has made it in the United States of America.
~ Muammar al-Gaddafi
You want me to spy on a National Colour operative?''Wow, ' she said, 'you got it. I thought I was going to have to explain that one for a lot longer.
~ Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.
~ Emily Murphy
I'm really playful with eyeshadows and love to experiment with colour.
~ A. J. Odudu
You have to be careful about over-politicizing the utterances of people of colour because, oftentimes, there's poetry that seeks to go beyond that narrative.
~ Kehinde Wiley
I respect a lot the players: their hair and their hair colour.
~ Unai Emery
I know there are girls of colour out there who have felt the same as me. We have a massive problem with racism, which is built into our society.
~ Leigh-Anne Pinnock
This often has a lot to do with racism and sexism, and the stories we are "allowed" to tell as people of colour.
~ Rebecca Walker
I wasn't as cynical about Britain as a lot of friends of mine who are also people of colour.
~ Nish Kumar
If she is a witch, the black dot will keep changing colour, and you will see fire and you will see ice
~ Roald Dahl
many experiments which intrigued him. He was particularly interested in the properties of light. By using a spinning colour
~ Andrew Thomas
bloodroot (sense 1) early 17th century: from Algonquian poughkone. puce adj. of a dark red or purple-brown colour: his face was puce with rage and frustration. n. [mass noun] a dark red or purple-brown colour. late 18th
~ Angus Stevenson
A pair of Berluti shoes has this flair, these nuances in colour and patina, so I thought: 'What if we took this je ne sais quoi and turn it into a menswear brand?'
~ Antoine Arnault
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.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan.
~ Asif Ali Zardari
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.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
There were many suggestions as to improvements: the addition of a window here and a door there, the insertion of an extra basin for the children to wash their hands before they handled the books—"An excellent, practical suggestion," said the principal—and then several views were expressed as to the colour of the walls, the roof, and the shelving.
~ Alexander McCall Smith