Imagine how boring the world would be in black and white? Colors make life pop. From paintings to advertising to clothing, color draws us in and creates a response to the corresponding hue. Below you’ll find a collection of wise and insightful quotes about color.
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.Claude Monet
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Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.Antoni Gaudi
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All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul — when you look at it, it's looking back at you.Uniek Swain
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Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.Oscar Wilde
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Color should be used to depict the three major emotions in a man's life—anticipation, realization and retrospection.Ernest Lawson
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Color is only beautiful when it means something.Robert Henri
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Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.Pierre Bonnard
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Coloring outside the lines is a fine art.Kim Nance
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Colors are the smiles of nature.Leigh Hunt
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I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.A.S. Byatt
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Each color lives by its mysterious life.Wassily Kandinsky
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All colours will agree in the dark.Francis Bacon
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A dominant colour possesses tremendous power in making a painting unique.Mary Bassi
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Color... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes.Charles Baudelaire
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Colour is a creative element, not a trimming.Piet Zwart
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Color is an intense experience on its own.Jim Hodges
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Colors express the main psychic functions of man.Carl Gustav Jung
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Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red, white, and blue all over.John F. Carlson
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It almost always happens that true, but exaggerated, coloring is more agreeable than absolute coloring.Michel Eugene Chevreul
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Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.Marion Milner
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Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.Walter J. Phillips
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Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.Keith Crown
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Colors speak all languages.Joseph Addison
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Colours are brighter when the mind is open.Adriana Alarcon
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A color is as strong as the impression it creates.Ivan Albright
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Color is the fruit of life.Guillaume Apollinaire
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Color, rather than shape, is more closely related to emotion.David Katz
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Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.Edouard Manet
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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
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Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.Sam Francis
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Color is an act of God that neither confers privileges nor imposes a handicap. A man's skin is like the day: day is neither clear or dark. There is nothing more to it until external agencies come in and invest it with special meaning and importance.Peter Abrahams
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To demand that color in color films should be 'natural' is to misunderstand all that is involved.Carl Th. Dreyer
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Directors want color that is an emphasis factor, the way color is in life, and to catch the poetry of the essential gray in life.Elia Kazan
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Color is basically immobile, and yet it must move. Color is wrong for a film that tries to be as subjective as mine...the only way to use color is subjectively.Federico Fellini
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The color was a character of its own.William Goldberg
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The landscape was bleak and bereft of color...like a painting in grisaille with its many tints of gray.Barbara Taylor Bradford
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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
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Color is visually musical, being both rythic and lyrical. It sets the tempo of a design through the blending of a multitude of hues.Joen Wolfrom
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Like beautiful melodies and poignant words, color draws from the deep emotions within us.Joen Wolfrom
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Each color has its own beauty and individuality, which you may accept or reject.Joen Wolfrom
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In art, color is used as a visual language. It is the communication link between creator and viewer.Joen Wolfrom
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In the grand scheme of nature, blue is a major player in the background of our world, but is rarely exhibited in the living landscape.Johannes Itten
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Color is life: for a world without colors appears to us as dead. Johannes Itten
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Colors are the children of the light, and light is their mother.Johannes Itten
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Color effects are in the eye of the beholder.Johannes Itten
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Color is a power which directly influences the soul.Wassily Kandinsky
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I am a believer that color affects people's moods.Lilly Pulitzer
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I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other wayGeorgia O'Keeffe
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The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on youCoco Chanel
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Life is a train of moods like a string of beads and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focusRalph Waldo Emerson
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The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.John Ruskin
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I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.Michael Bassey Johnson
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Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.Khalil Gibran
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Life is a sea of vibrant color. Jump in.A.D. Posey
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People are like M&Ms. They come in a variety of colors, they're hard on the outside, and full of obscene yumminess on the inside.Michael Makai
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She knew then that white was more than a color: It was a cold, pale shade of understanding that seems to take all of your hope away.Vannetta Chapman
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Colours are nature gone wild.Raheel Farooq
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Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.Vera Nazarian
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Whatever you choose for your stationery is your favorite color because it's where you pour your heart out.Mary E. Pearson
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Red was ruby, green was fluorescent, yellow was simply incandescent. Color was life. Color was everything. Color, you see, was the universal sign of magic.Tahereh Mafi