Color Quotes

When I haven't any blue I use red.

To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.

He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.

How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.

The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.

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

The first of all simple colours is White ... We shall set down White for the representative of light, without which no colour can be seen; Yellow for the earth; Green for water; Blue for air; Red for fire; and Black for total darkness.

Kodachrome, it gives us those nice bright colors Gives us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah! I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph So momma, don't take my Kodachrome away.

There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?

Orange is the happiest color.

If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree by the colour of the objects surrounding it

Green grass, green grandstands, green concession stalls, green paper cups, green folding chairs and visors for sale, green and white ropes, green-topped Georgia pines. If justice were poetic, Hubert Green would win it every year.

It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.

Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.

Colour itself is a degree of darkness.

In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate... The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour.

Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

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.

Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.

If you don't know what color to take, take black.

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.

I want to know one thing, what is color?

I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is.

Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and so on.

The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.

All those emotions spanning from intense love, intense frustration, intense jealously, all those feelings are red.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?

We find from experience that yellow excites a warm and agreeable impression.... The eye is gladdened, the heart expanded and cheered, a glow seems at once to breathe toward us.