#colours

.. the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ... ↗

— Stephen King

#colors #colours #sunlight #beauty

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#comes #dangerous #fine #gay #many

Tonight the sun has died like an Emperor ... great scarlet arcs of silk ... saffron ... green ... crimson ... and the blaze of Venus to remind one of the absolute and the infinite ... and along the lower rim of beauty lay the hard harsh line of the hills ... ↗

— John Coldstream

#description #imagery #natural-world #silk #sunset

There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends. ↗

— Silvia Cartwright

#character #colours #courage #emerge #friends

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#colours #emotional #full #i #saturated

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. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#attributes #body #colours #combinations #elements

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

#colours #complex #dark #deceptively #i

I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#always #because #cds #colours #denied

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#down #flat #get #low #match

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. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#colours #idea #itself #match #never