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Color Quotes
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Color is a sort of mid-point between pure light and pure darkness.
NATHAN CABOT HALE
Abstraction in Art and Nature
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Colors are the deeds and sufferings of light.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Goethe’s Approach to Colour
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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.
PABLO PICASSO
Arts tie Fiance
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The colors of my life
Are bountiful and bold,
The purple glow of indigo,
The gleam of green and gold.
The splendor of the sunrise,
The dazzle of a flame,
The glory of a rainbow,
I’d put ’em all to shame.
CY COLEMAN
Barnum
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Color is the overpowering of black.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
The Creator
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It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent.
GEORGE ELIOT
Middlemarch
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.
CLAUDE MONET
attributed, Claude Monet: Les Nymphéas
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Strong, hard colors are like a shout: arresting, exciting, occasionally overpowering or jarring. Lacquer red, shocking pink, chrome yellow, orange, acid green, sharp turquoise, magenta, purple can be wonderful. But they can drown out a person.
ENID A. HAUPT
The Seventeen Book of Fashion and Beauty
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White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Orthodoxy
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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Stray Birds
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For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away … the color of where you can never go.
REBECCA SOLNIT
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
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Colors. Would it be green or blue today? Maybe white–my favorite. A dark voice in the back of my mind offered no color at all as an alternative. I smothered that voice. The days of no color were simply too hard to bear.
JULIE HOCKLEY
Crow’s Row
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
“I Have a Dream”
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I cannot pretend to feel impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
“Painting as a Pastime,”, Strand Magazine, Dec. 1921/Jan. 1922
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I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way–things I had no words for.
GEORGIA O’KEEFE
Georgia O’Keefe: Nature and Abstraction
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A world without color would definitely be a dull place. Black-and-white photography is a fun exercise in aesthetics, but imagine if one day we all woke up to find flowers that were only shades of gray! Or fall color that was as hue-less as rainy-day clouds.
ROB SHEPPARD
The Magic of Digital Nature Photography
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Painting dissolves the forms at its command … it melts them into color.
ALEXANDER ELIOT
Sight and Insight
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Life is about using the whole box of crayons.
RUPAUL
attributed, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teacher Tales
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In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposefully sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key.
VASSILY KANDINKSY
Über das Geistige in der Kunst
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I’ll close my eyes and just see pretty colors,
They’re dancing just for me, pretty colors (pretty colors)
Locked in my mind they’ll always be,
You’ll never give your love to me,
So I’ll just close my eyes and just see pretty colors (pretty colors)
FRANK SINATRA
“Pretty Colors”
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Inspirational Color Quotes By The Masters
by Dan Scott
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I decided to put together some of my favorite color quotes by the master artists.
Color is such a mysterious and fascinating area and it is interesting to read how some of the master artists viewed color.
When many of these artists were alive, color was not nearly as understood or studied as it is now. These artists relied much more on intuition rather than a scientific understanding of how color works. In some ways, this may have been an advantage to work with a focus on intuition.
Anyway, here are some of my favorite color quotes. Let me know your favorite in the comments.
“I prefer living in color.” David Hockney
“I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.” Grandma Moses
“It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.” Paul Gauguin
“Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
” Pablo Picasso
” Pablo Picasso“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.” Pablo Picasso
“When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.” Paul Cezanne
“Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.” Marc Chagall
“Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.” Eugene Delacroix
“I have always wanted my colors to sing.” Paul Delvaux
“Before, when I didn’t know what color to put down, I put down black. Black is a force: I depend on black to simplify the construction. Now I’ve given up blacks.
” Henri Matisse“They’ll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never.” Pablo Picasso
“Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.” Wassily Kandinsky
“Full, saturated colors have an emotional significance I want to avoid.” Lucian Freud
On Vincent van Gogh…
“Oh yes! He loved yellow, did good Vincent… When the two of us were together in Arles, both of us insane, and constantly at war over beautiful colors, I adored red; where could I find a perfect vermilion?” Paul Gauguin
“If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.” Paul Gauguin
“Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
” Paul Gauguin“It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white… A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests color.” Winslow Homer
“Better gray than garishness.” Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
“A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so yellow has shades, which can be expressed by various instruments.” Wassily Kandinsky
“Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.” Claude Monet
“The point is to know how to use the colors, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.” Claude Monet
“Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my experience with the flower – and what is my experience if it is not the color?” Georgia O’Keeffe
“No small dabs of color – you want plenty of paint to paint with.
” John Singer Sargent“Light is therefore color.” J. M. W. Turner
“If I could find anything blacker than black I’d use it.” J. M. W. Turner
“Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.” Leonardo da Vinci
“I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature – the very thought of it drives me mad.” Andrew Wyeth
“In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.” Hans Hofmann
“All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.” Marc Chagall
“I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.
” Eugene DelacroixWhich Is Your Favorite Quote?
I struggle to choose any particular favorite, but I do enjoy this Paul Gauguin quote, “Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.”
What is your favorite color quote? Please share in the comments.
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