COLOR QUOTES II
quotations about color
Colors are like music to me. I can hear them singing. I'll bet if God struck me deaf and blind this very moment I'd go right on hearing the music of colors, and seeing them behind my eyes.
V.C. ANDREWS
If There Be Thorns
Gray reminds me of socks, cats, sweaters, etc. This color is like a grim feeling to me. This color make me feel as if everything is dreary.
NATASHA ALCANTAR
The Beast Stand Down
Grey has no agenda.... Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.
ROMA TEARNE
Mosquito
Colors are primordial ideas, children of the aboriginal colorless light and its counterpart colorless darkness.
JOHANNES ITTEN
The Art of Color
A world without color is an impossible conception. It would be a world of mental darkness, of frustration, and no other gifts of civilization could, in any wise, compensate us for the loss of chromatic values. We should go mad in a colorless world.
ANONYMOUS
The Chemist
Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.
KOBO ABE
The Green Stockings
Red = stop. Green = go. Our use of color is simple and unambiguous as a traffic light, but more often we use it to communicate on a variety of levels. Almost without exception, the use of color as a language means fabrication of some sort or another, interaction with the natural world of plants and minerals, the control and modulation of light and surface.
SADAO HIBI
The Colors of Japan
The best color in the whole world, is the one that looks good, on you.
COCO CHANEL
attributed, Glamour, vol. 103
Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always ... Color and I are one. I am a painter.
PAUL KLEE
diary entry, April 16, 1914
It was a world without color. The sea, the sky, and the dust that made up much of the landscape were all different shades of gray. Nothing grew there. Even the wind had no life to it.
ANTHONY HOROWITZ
Oblivion
White, which is often regarded as a non-color ... is like the symbol of a world where all colors, as material qualities and substances have disappeared.
WASSILY KANDINSKY
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Goethe argued there is no color in the physical world; there are only patterns of light and dark. These patterns are a sensation produced by our very souls.
JOHN GAGE
Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction
Let us imagine a world without color, without regal red or leafy green, a world that bores the eye with gray. Praise to You, О Lord, for all the colors in the rainbow, for eyes that are made for seeing, and for beauty that is its own excuse for being.
SIDNEY GREENBERG & JONATHAN D. LEVINE
The New Mahzor
All good color is in some degree pensive, the loveliest is melancholy, and the purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.
JOHN RUSKIN
The Stones of Venice
People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spot blues. Murky darkness. In my line of work, I make it a point to notice them.
MARKUS ZUSAK
The Book Thief
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 the 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
letter to his wife, October 21, 1907
We would have difficulty in imagining a world without color, a world of white, and gray, and black forms. When we look at ordinary photographs we see this neutral sort of world, but even then we do not realize the full experience of grayness that living in a really colorless world would give us, because our minds are full of memories of the actual hues of nature, the greens of foliage, the blues of the sky. Therefore, when we look at a photograph these memories are awakened and promptly associate themselves with the gray forms of the print, and impart to them a feeling of color borrowed from our past experiences.
WALTER SARGENT
The Enjoyment and Use of Color
She comes in colors ev'rywhere
She combs her hair
She's like a rainbow
Coming, colors in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colors
THE ROLLING STONES
"She's a Rainbow"
Don't think of color as a little thing. Think of it as one of the greatest we know, and rejoice in it, train yourself to see it everywhere, to know its perfect harmonies and splendid contrasts, its delicate gradations, its depth and power. A deal of our happiness comes through color, and much more can come if we will let it.
HILDEGARDE HAWTHORNE
"The Fun--and the Immensity--of Little Things,", St. Nicholas, vol. 48
A world without color appears lifeless. Life does not exist without light, and without light there is no color. Light is the first phenomenon of the world.
STAN PLACE & BOBBI RAY MADRY
The Art and Science of Professional Makeup