#Color Quotes

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“When I haven't any blue I use red.”

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

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

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

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

“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?”

“I want to know one thing, what is color?”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

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

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

“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.”

“Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.”

“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.”

“Colour itself is a degree of darkness.”

“Orange is the happiest color.”

“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.”