Quotes About Color

"If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue."-- Paul Gauguin

"There is no blue without yellow and without orange." -- Vincent Van Gogh

"Blue is the only color which maintains its own character in all its tones...it will always stay blue; whereas yellow is blackened in its shades, and fades away when lightened; red when darkened becomes brown, and diluted with white is no longer red, but another color - pink." -- Raoul Dufy

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For more information see "All About the Color Blue"

"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises." -- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

"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." -- Oscar Wilde

"Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men this restfulness has a beneficial effect, but after a time it becomes tedious." -- Wassily Kandinsky

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"Yellow wakes me up in the morning. Yellow gets me on the bike every day. Yellow has taught me the true meaning of sacrifice. Yellow makes me suffer. Yellow is the reason I am here." -- Lance Armstrong

"There are painters who transform the sun to a
yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transfer a yellow spot into the sun."--Pablo Picasso

"How wonderful yellow is. It stands for the sun." --Vincent Van Gogh

"What a horrible thing yellow is." --Edgar Degas

"A yellow circle will reveal a spreading movement outwards from the center which almost markedly approaches the spectator; a blue circle develops a concentric movement (like a snail hiding in its shell) and moves away from the spectator." --Wassily Kandinsky

"Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow." --Fran Drescher

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"When in doubt wear red." --Bill Blass

"Red is the ultimate cure for sadness." --Bill Blass

"Red is obviously such a stimulating color, and it has so many connotations." --P. J. Harvey

"Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level." --Anish Kapoor

"Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red." --Anish Kapoor

"The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood." --Alice Meynell

"Red brought out more of my personality." --Bob Edwards

"Oh, I love red. I"m very loyal to my colors. I love violet."--Elizabeth Taylor

"I love red so much that I almost want to paint everything red."--Alexander Calder

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"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it." --Alice Walker

"Born in the scientific purple." --George Howard Darwin

"But, luckily, he kept his wits and his Purple crayon." --from Harold and the Purple Crayon (1955)

"Oh, I love red. I'm very loyal to my colors. I love violet." --Elizabeth Taylor

"Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme." --Derek Jarman, English Film Director, Stage Designer, Artist and Writer, 1942-1994

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For more information see "All About the Color Purple"

"Black is a great color! it sets off your wig!"--Stan Freberg

"I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black."--Auguste Renoir

"Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensations."--Hermann Von Helmhoz

"I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, / Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, / I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, / But is there because he's a victim of the times."--Johnny Cash, lyrics from "The Man in Black".

"Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real."--Amy Grant

"People can have the Model T in any color - so long as it's black."--Henry Ford

"Black is not a color." "Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity."--Edouard Manet

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"The only color I don't have is navy brown." --Yogi Berra

"Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth -- well, it's like brown -- it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic." --Iris Murdoch

"God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer." --Anne Sexton

"I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns." --Winston Churchill

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"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." --G. K. Chesterton

"The first of all single colors is white ... We shall set down white for the representative of light, without which no color can be seen; yellow for the earth; green for water; blue for air; red for fire; and black for total darkness." --Leonardo Da Vinci

"ELOQUENCE, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white." --Ambrose Bierce

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"Pink is the navy blue of India." --Diana Vreeland

"I fell off my pink cloud with a thud."-- Elizabeth Taylor

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For more information see "All About the Color Pink"

Funny but it seems that I don't have any quotes about the color orange. If you know of any that you think are worth a mention please add to the guestbook. Thanks!

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For more information see "All About the Color Orange"

"Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and ... one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity." -- Rainer Maria Rilke [German poet, 1875-1926] from a letter to his wife, Oct. 21, 1907. Published in Rilke's Letters on Cézanne (1985, German edition 1952)

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