Quotes of Tint - somelinesforyou

“ No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar. ”

- William Cowper

“ Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind. ”

- Maxwell Bodenheim

“ Celebrating the colors of our beautiful relationship, I wish you and your family all the bright hues of life. ”

- Unknown

“ Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest clothes dressed. ”

- James Thomson

“ Trees shade us, but they know it not. ”

- Ben Jonson

“ The color of truth is grey. ”

- Andre Gide

“ Let's do the nuances. ”

- Garrison Keillor

“ My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white. ”

- Monty Python

“ Dancing in the chequer'd shade. ”

- John Milton

“ For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind. ”

- Maxwell Bodenheim

“ I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument. ”

- Bobby McFerrin

“ I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why. ”

- Dizzy Dean

“ I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colors. ”

- Vincent van Gogh

“ When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men: for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O, word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none. ”

- Olivier Messiaen

“ The Aethiop The purchaser of a black servant was persuaded that the color of his skin arose from dirt contracted through the neglect of his former masters. On bringing him home he resorted to every means of cleaning, and subjected the man to incessant scrubbings… ”

- Aesop

“ Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas. ”

- Alexander Maclaren

“ Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ Blushing is the color of virtue. ”

- Diogenes

“ All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. ”

- Marc Chagall

“ America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth. ”

- Jesse Jackson

“ The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ 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

“ All colors will agree in the dark. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will. ”

- John Sterling

“ Colors are the smiles of nature. ”

- Leigh Hunt

“ Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No. Just as one can never learn how to paint. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ There are only three colors, ten digits, and seven notes; it's what we do with them that's important. ”

- Ruth Ross

“ We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade. ”

- Caroline Sheridan Norton

“ The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette. ”

- Henry S. Haskins
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8