According to one embodiment, a display device including a plurality of light sources of different luminous colors, a first substrate, a second substrate opposed to the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates, to which light from the light sources enters, a display area on which an image is displayed, and a drive circuit configured to control quantity of light from each of the light sources on the basis of an analyzation result of an image signal used to display the image.