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Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences. -- Josef Albers
In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting. -- Viggo Mortensen
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him. -- Frederick Douglass
My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever changing view. -- Carole King
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. -- John Locke
One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints. -- John James Audubon
Hue does not refer to how light, dark, or intense, but only what kind of color: what hue. It takes all three aspects to make a color, therefore 'red' is not a color, but only one aspect, the hue, of some partially defined color. -- William Tapley Bennett Jr.
Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose. -- John Milton
Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue? -- James Montgomery
It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues. -- W. H. Davies
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue. -- Thomas Campbell
Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue. -- Julian Baggini
The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought -- William Shakespeare
I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue. -- Billy Corgan
Dead bodies do get a grayish blue/purple hue because blood pools in the capillaries and the body starts to decompose. It's not smurf blue, but it's not a pleasant shade. -- Ann Hood
The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action. -- William Shakespeare
You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on natures own hues and tints. -- William Merritt Chase
You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue. -- Milan Kundera
When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark. -- Ed Smith
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost
There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color. -- Claude Chabrol
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . . -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon. -- Elizabeth Kim
What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground. -- Henry David Thoreau
There's always a great hue and cry when you sign onto a "remake," and that's always been sort of annoying me and freaking me out. This profession that we're in is drama. What drama has been since the beginning is, you restage plays with new casts, or a writer will take a new run at an old story. -- William Monahan
Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. -- William Shakespeare
Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision. -- Charles Dickens
With a smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue. -- John Milton
While rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn. -- James Montgomery
A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes. -- Dante Alighieri
I had no name for that particular hue of orange, other than unfortunate. -- Rachel Caine
No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar. -- William Cowper
Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places. -- John Ruskin
Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake. -- Haruki Murakami
But thou, my son, study to make prevail One colour in thy life, the hue of truth. -- Matthew Arnold
Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light. -- Francis Bacon
In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors. -- John Milton
In dreams and visions lie the greatest creations of man, for on them rests no yoke of line or hue. -- R. H. Barlow
In painting, whether colour reflection is apparent or not, every hue must echo neighbouring hues, so that homogeneity may be attained. -- Walter J. Phillips
Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public pure cold water. -- Jean Sibelius
The shadows of the room pool in the lines of our faces, draining our eyes of hue. "There's nothing left worth saying. -- Isaac Marion
There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about. -- Dante Alighieri
May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright, Of soft and golden hue, Pierce through the future's veil and show, What fate now holds for you? -- Jerry Smith
Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is even in the grave, And thou must die. -- George Herbert
Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake. -- Lord Byron
Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock . Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue. -- Theognis of Megara
Once a pallid Vestal Doubted truth in blue; Listed red in ruin, Harried every hue; Barricaded vision, Garbed herself in sighs; Ridiculed the birthmarks Of the butterflies. -- Nathalia Crane
Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth. -- Dante Alighieri
Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Don't choose anything that's two tones lighter than your natural lip tone, and make sure there's a little pink in the hue so it doesn't look too washed out. -- Charlotte Tilbury
Sparkling and bright in liquid light Does the wine our goblets gleam in; With hue as red as the rosy bed Which a bee would choose to dream in. -- Charles Fenno Hoffman
You can never judge a paint hue by the liquid color in the paint pot. You must apply it to a wall, wait for the paint to dry, then decide. -- Dorothy Draper
Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid and bleaching, they alter the hue and make them white. -- John Flavel
Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue? -- Robert Frost
O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness, And drinks my spirit up! -- Hannah More
It is general knowledge for anyone interested in color that subdued value, intensity and hue make for quieter, less adventuresome interiors. Stronger approaches need stronger knowledge, more experience and flair. -- Van Day Truex
We should be long past applauding politicians of any hue: they got us into this mess. The best deserve a probationary opportunity to prove themselves, the worst should be in jail. -- Gerald Warner
All green was anished sae of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Sae the green holly with its berries red, And the green moss that o'er the grael spread. -- George Crabbe
Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing, Read you not the wrong you're doing In my cheek's pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing; Wed or cease to woo. -- Thomas Campbell
What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want propaganda, and writers want the truth, and they're not compatible. -- David Hare
The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action." -- William Shakespeare
But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue. -- John Milton
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In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs. -- Henry David Thoreau

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