Color Quotes - Page 5

• Blueness doth express trueness.

  Ben Jonson

  Trueness

  Ben Jonson (1756). “The Works of Ben. Jonson”, p.384

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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

  Pain, Artist, Two

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• Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you're trying to make.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Consistency, Trying, Fields

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• Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Beauty, God, Lost

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.404

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• Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Names, Purple

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.454

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• My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.

  Nelson Mandela

  Respect, Men, Skins

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.139, Pan Macmillan

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• I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Knives, Canvas, Intensity

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• Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for all men, irrespective of nationality, color, or religion;.... leave the matter of religious teaching to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contribution. Keep church and state forever separate.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Religious, Teaching, School

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• 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

  Love, Green, Moral

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.950, Wordsworth Editions

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• I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors of flames and the sight of a woman suffering in them were giving him joy beyond measure.

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Daughter, Eye, Men

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• Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Death, Design, Quality

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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

  Inspiring, God, Religious

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• I love red so much, I almost want to paint everything red.

  Alexander Calder

  Want, Red, Paint

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• Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  "Stray Birds". Book by Rabindranath Tagore, 1916.

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• Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.

  John Ruskin

  Blue, Delight, Deities

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1872). “The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin”, p.414

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• Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

  Robert Frank

  Photography, Black And White, Forever

  Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

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• Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

  Edvard Munch

  Artist, Clash, Reconcile

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• There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Brain, Logic

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• The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Racism, Lines, Social Justice

  The Souls of Black Folk ch. 2 (1903)

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• I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

  Joan Miro

  Art, Trying, Shapes

  "Joan Miro: Selected Writings and Interviews". Book by Joan Miró, editing by M.Rowell, Thames and Hudson, 1987.

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• I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.

  Henri Matisse

  Queens, Black And White, Years

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• I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white; beside me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity.

  Kazimir Malevich

  White, Blue, Broken

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• Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

  Edvard Munch

  Canvas, Remarkable, Has Beens

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• The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

  Charles Lamb

  Fear, Beggar

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• Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sea, Waves Breaking, Mind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1844). “The Spanish Student: A Play in Three Acts”, p.50

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