Black is the queen of colours.
Fill your plate with the colours of the rainbow. What pleases the eye, pleases the body.
Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand, not whatever you please, but quantity.
The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.
I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.
In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions--and one of us was of a different world.
All colours will agree in the dark.
There are conservative people in all colours in America.
Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impression of your subject as one thing!
Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue - and no one should be allowed to read them.
On the field I defend our colours, love our flag and sing our anthem. I could not be more Italian than I am now.
I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.
I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.
Choosing colours should not be a gamble. It should be a conscious decision. Colours have a meaning and a function.
It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent.
Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
Thinking. . . is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas
If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope.
We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were. . . There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.
When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
