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Colors Quotes
"Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences."
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"In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory."
28
"I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice."
27
"Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel."
23
"They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black."
21
"Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen."
21
"Michael would take us on location and see how the colors worked in the forests and fields."
21
"I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night."
19
"There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules."
18
"Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colors that are but skin-deep."
18
"And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me."
18
"I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings."
17
"Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions."
16
"Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter."
16
"My Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors."
16
"Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence."
15
"Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused."
15
"The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it."
15
"The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something."
14
"The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'"
14
"We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them."
14
"I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires."
14
"Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash."
14
"The colors I use may clash or vibrate against one another but this is done intentionally."
14
"Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure. I had great satisfaction in doing that."
12
"You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face."
12
"The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness."
12
"But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors."
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