I like black because it is a vacant space.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

I’m personally more struck by visual things more than musical.

I don’t like the intellectual label.

I know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.

If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it’s not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?

Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

White… is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black… God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

I don’t like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.

‚Do you spell it with a ‚V‘ or a ‚W‘?‘ inquired the judge. ‚That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord‘.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

I prefer the old theaters because the audience is… trapped.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

Any colour – so long as it’s black.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

I don’t eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

I’m strictly for Stevenson. I don’t dig the intellectual bit, but I’m telling you, man, he knows the most.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

I don’t have a need for speed. I’m not that guy.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

No, I can’t do rap music!