Color Quotes - Page 3

• The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.

  Henri Matisse

  Expression, Should, Function

  "Matisse on Art".

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• What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of my control, unnamed, beyond my reasonable self. I desire it because passion has color, like the landscape before me. It is not pale. It is not neutral. It reveals the backside of the heart.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Passion, Heart, Self

  Terry Tempest Williams (2008). “Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert”, p.195, Vintage

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• Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

  Claude Monet

  Motivational, Art, Long

  Claude Monet (1969). “Claude Monet”

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• It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Block, Ignorance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People's hearts color the heart of the earth and the earth colors the hearts of people.

  Ilchi Lee

  Heart, People, Earth

  Ilchi Lee (2012). “The Call of Sedona: Journey of the Heart”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

  John French Sloan

  Form, Instruments, Palette

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• Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory of colour. This is what a picture should give us ... an abyss in which the eye is lost, a secret germination, a coloured state of grace ... loose conciousness. Descend with the painter into the dim tangled roots of things, and rise again from them in colours, be steeped in the light of them.

  Paul Cezanne

  Eye, Thinking, Light

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• Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.

  Paul Cezanne

  Ideas, Rainbow, Sometimes

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• Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Wind, Branches, Green

  Federico García Lorca, “Romance Sonámbulo”

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• I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.

  Christian Louboutin

  Bird, Paradise, Way

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• Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Agility, Painting

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2002). “Letters on Cézanne”, p.66, Macmillan

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• It can be a fascinating game, noticing how any person with vitality and vigor will have a little splash of red in a costume, in a room, or in a garden.

  Edgar Cayce

  Garden, Games, Vitality

  Edgar Cayce (1986). “The Edgar Cayce Collection: Four Volumes in One”, Random House Value Publishing

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• In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

  Marc Chagall

  Love, Life, Art

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• If one says “Red” (the name of a color) and there are 50 people listening, it can be expected that there will be 50 reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.

  Josef Albers

  Names, People, Listening

  "Interaction of Color: 50th Anniversary Edition".

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• If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

  Mel Brooks

  Inspirational, Rainbow, Quiet

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• I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.

  Charles Bukowski

  Morning, Awakening, Remember

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• How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

  John Burroughs

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

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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'Keeffe

  Inspiring, Art, Flower

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.23, Infobase Publishing

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• There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

  Jim Rohn

  Creativity, Important, Economy

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 20, 2017

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• One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes.

  Verner Panton

  Sitting, Hue, Likes

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• A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

  Henri Matisse

  Design, Red

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• Color is only beautiful when it means something.

  Robert Henri

  Beautiful, Mean

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Pain, Happy Hour

  1914 The Diaries of Paul Klee 1898-1918, entry 926.

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• Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.

  Henri Matisse

  Artist, Light, Brain

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.156, Univ of California Press

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• Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

  Antonio Gaudi

  Architecture, Planes, Certain

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