Colours Quotes

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"I`m happy to be black. I am what I am, I`m doing very well in my life, and I`m thankful to God for that. I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he`s doing - I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give. As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours. And I think eventually, if I just stay on this path, we`ll get there."

- LL Cool J

The clothes in "Sex and the City" (1998) were a blast! My favourite part was working with Patricia Field, the costume designer. It was just insane. My wardrobe was more outrageous than raunchy. Yes, the colours were bright and the necklines were super-low, but my behaviour was more daring than my wardrobe. I think some of the other characters` choices were more, "Soho trash queens", but Samantha was a professional woman who worked and lived uptown, so she was always well put together. For the first season, I had a connection at Yves Saint-Laurent, and I wore YSL suits with a brooch or a hat, or a bag that was kind of fun or zing, but never too raunchy.

- Kim Cattrall

If I continue to make films about New York, they will probably be set in the past. The `new` New York I don`t know much about. It`s not that I`m against contemporary film. I`m open to it in general, but I find the new colours of the city, the new Times Square, kind of shocking. I guess I`m stuck in a time warp.

- Martin Scorsese

When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that, and feeling like I was losing control.

- Steve Buscemi

On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn`t agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing.

- Julie Harris

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

- Winston Churchill

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

- Suzi Quatro

On a personal level, I don`t immediately open up to anybody, even about what colours I like, much less something like this. I am my mother, OK?

- Nathan Lane

The mother explained it to a teacher at the school who didn`t know these were gang colours, ... The kids were being recruited through their colours.

- Don Meredith

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.

- Mark Millar

It`s much more the evening wear collection - lots of colours. Lots of pinks and greens and prints and it`s a vintage kind of feel.

- Collette Dinnigan

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

- Aislinn Ryan

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

- Alejandro Moreno

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.

- Alejandro Moreno

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.

- Alexandra Bodemann

I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me.

- Alicia Dlugosh

My work all stems from my enjoyment of the medium. I also have a passion for colour, strong colours, clashing colours, all colours.

- Alisha Valenzuela

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.

- Alisha Valenzuela

I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work.

- Alisha Valenzuela

I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.

- Alisha Valenzuela

While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.

- Alisha Valenzuela

I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour.

- Alisha Valenzuela

The six colours, including the white background, represent the colours of all the world`s flags... this is a true international emblem.

- Amy Kemp

The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself.

- Andre Dreicon

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colours would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

- Andrew Somers

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

- Alexis de Tocqueville