Color Quotes - Page 2

• Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Importance, Strongest

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• Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

  Robert Delaunay

  Art, Light, Movement

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• A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.

  Henri Matisse

  Blue, Blood, Soul

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.211, Univ of California Press

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• Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.

  Henri Matisse

  Feelings, Looks, Action

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• The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

  Hans Hofmann

  World, Mystic, Realms

  "Search for the Real: And Other Essays". Book by Hans Hofmann. "Search for the Real in the Visual Arts", p. 45, 1948.

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• You select the colors of your thoughts; drab or bright, weak or strong, good or bad. You select the colors of your emotions; discordant or harmonious, harsh or quiet, weak or strong. You select the colors of your acts; cold or warm, fearful or daring, small or big.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Strong, Emotion, Quiet

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• The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Thoughtful, Mind

  1851-3 The Stones ofVenice, vol.ii, ch.5.

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• A color is as strong as the impression it creates.

  Ivan Albright

  Strong, Impression

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• Color is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.

  Ernst Haas

  Thinking, Rainbow, Joy

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• Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

  John Sterling

  Men, Feelings, Shapes

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• Each day has its own individuality of color.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Individuality, Each Day

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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• Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.

  Fernand Leger

  Men, Fire, Water

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• 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

  Inspiring, Art, Eye

  Wassily Kandinsky (1955). “Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912”

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• Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

  Marc Chagall

  Vibrations

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• Orange is the happiest color.

  Frank Sinatra

  Orange

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• Color is the fruit of life.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Fruit, Colour

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• When I haven't any blue I use red.

  Pablo Picasso

  Blue, Red, Use

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• Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Nature, Green World, Earth Day

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• All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

  Marc Chagall

  Life, Opposites, Neighbors And Friends

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• If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, Being Different, Deep Thought

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• Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.

  Keith Crown

  Lovely, Privilege, Language

  Keith Crown (1967). “Crown: Keith Crown, Painter : University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 30-July 21, 1967”

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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

  Long, Joy, One Day

  "Claude Monet: Les Nymphéas". Book by Georges Clemenceau, Ch. 2, 1926.

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• Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

  Hans Hofmann

  Together, Wheels, Cogs

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• I never met a color I didn't like.

  Dale Chihuly

  Mets

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• Color is a matter of taste and sensitivity.

  Edouard Manet

  Taste, Matter, Sensitivity

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