Colour Quotes - Page 3

• El blanco... no es una mera ausencia de color; es algo brillante y afirmativo, tan feroz como el rojo, tan definido como el negro... Dios pinta de muchos colores; pero nunca pinta tan bellamente, casi diría tan llamativamente, como cuando pinta de blanco.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Flower, Color White, Shining

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• Colour is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it To work with colour is to become acutely aware of the insufficiency of language and theory – which is both disturbing and pleasurable.

  David Batchelor

  Order, Limits, Language

  Gary Hume, Adrian Searle, David Batchelor, British Council (1999). “Gary Hume: British Pavilion, XLVIII Venice Biennale, 13 June-7 Novermer 1999”

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• El color no añade una cualidad agradable al diseño, sino que lo refuerza.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Muerte, color, diseño

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• Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on form and outline, on where that is put.

  William Blake

  Light, Doe, Form

  William Blake (1893). “The Works of William Blake”

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• A ver qué puedes hacer con tu atrevimiento con el color y tu ignorancia mezclada con él.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Ignorancia, Color, Atrevimiento

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). "Charles Webster Hawthorne", University of Washington Press.

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• This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.

  Virginia Woolf

  Echoes, Self, Sea

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1446, Delphi Classics

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• Chromophobia is perhaps only chromophilia without the colour.

  David Batchelor

  David Batchelor (2000). “Chromophobia”, p.71, Reaktion Books

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• No hay más de cinco colores primarios, pero combinados producen más tonalidades de las que se pueden ver.

  Sun Tzu

  Militar, Arte de la Guerra, Hue

  Lionel Giles', Sun Tzu (1910). "El arte de la guerra de Sun Tzu - Ilustrado y traducido para lectores modernos", p.14, SJ Creations Tokyo

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• Put variety in white.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  White, Variety

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). "Charles Webster Hawthorne", University of Washington Press.

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• The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.

  Odilon Redon

  Soul, Fundamentals, Masters

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• At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

  Winston Churchill

  White, Black, Sides

  Winston Churchill (1965). "Un hombre de destino: Winston S. Churchill"

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• Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under the light.

  Eugenio Delacroix

  Light, Enemy, Painting

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• El rojo, por supuesto, es el color del interior de nuestro cuerpo. En cierto modo, el rojo está del revés.

  Anish Kapoor

  Cuerpo, Rojo, Camino

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• An artist is either good at color or good at value but rarely good at both. I focus on the tonal range, the dark-light effects, rather than the full color range of bright colors. I just don't know what to do with all those cadmiums.

  Thomas S. Buechner

  Dark, Artist, Color

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• The last mad throb of red just as it turns green; the ultimate shriek of orange calling all the blues of heaven for relief and support... each color almost regains the fun it must have felt within itself on forming the first rainbow.

  Charles Demuth

  Fun, Color, Orange

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• Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

  Henry Ford

  Long, Car, Black

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.49, 谷月社

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• When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter yolks than those of country hens.

  Cennino Cennini

  Country, Color, Cities

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• Color exists simultaneously with form. Both elements are constantly associated but color strikes you more - a rose for instance - sometimes form - the human body.

  Ferdinand Hodler

  Color, Rose, Elements

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• Utilizado en toda una habitación, el naranja puede llegar a ser sorprendentemente neutro, y sin embargo puede ser luminoso y mejorar el estado de ánimo.

  Jonathan Adler

  Orange, Neutrality, Rooms

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• They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'

  Eddie Izzard

  Pants, Comedy, Left

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• Nos acostumbramos a un determinado color de forma o formato, y es aceptable. Y romper eso es arriesgarse un poco. Y muy pronto, eso es muy aceptable.

  Lee Krasner

  Cuellos, Tipo, Usado

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• Nadie nace odiando a otra persona por el color de su piel, su origen o su religión.

  Nelson Mandela

  Sabiduría, odio, educación y libertad

  Publicación en Twitter del 09 de enero de 2016

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• If artists do see fields blue they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them blue, they are criminals and should go to prison.

  Adolf Hitler

  Artist, Blue, Color

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• In precious opals there might be a dash of red here, a seductive swirl of blue there, and in the center, perhaps, a flirtatious glance of green. But each stone flickers with a unique fire and a good opal is one with an opinion of its own.

  Victoria Finlay

  Unique, Fire, Blue

  Victoria Finlay (2006). “Jewels: A Secret History”, p.108, Ballantine Books

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• Creo que cabrea a Dios que pases junto al color morado en algún campo y no te fijes en él.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirador, Dios, Religioso

  Alice Walker (2012). "Todo lo que amamos se puede salvar: A Writer's Activism", p.29, Ballantine Books.

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