Read Time: 3 min Quotes About the Color PurpleBackground image credit: Ernesto Bruschi Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme.Derek Jarmen, English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener and author, 1942–1994 Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated […]
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Read Time: 3 min Did Team Obama’s purple meaning match their message? That was the question of the day from the reports that called the morning after President Obama’s State of the Union address.
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Read Time: 3 min Purple. It’s a color that calls to mind opulence and royalty. However, the origin of the word purple has a history as rich as the images it evokes.
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Read Time: < 1 minute Did you know that there is a condition called Porphyrophobia which is the fear of the color purple? Yes, believe it or not, there is.
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Read Time: 8 min Color Meaning of Purple Explained; symbolism, psychology, word associations, intrigue facts about blue and how to use this royal color effectively.
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Read Time: 4 min Color is dynamic. Every color has a vibrant public persona, but it also has more subtle attributes that the human eye does not immediately see. One of the most effective techniques for alleviating frustration and mastering color, especially when it comes to neutrals, is to understand materials and paint color undertones.
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Read Time: 11 min Color Meaning of Green Explained; symbolism, psychology, word associations, intrigue facts about green and how to use nature’s favorite color effectively.
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Read Time: 5 min Color temperature describes how “warm” or “cool” a color is. Blue, green, and purple are cool while yellow, orange, and red but there is more to it than that.
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Read Time: 5 min Quotes About Color Red Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.Taylor Swift, American singer-songwriter, b. 1989 […]
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Read Time: 4 min Quotes About the Color Gray The color of truth is gray.Andre Gide, French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951 The color of truth is gray. – Andre Gide #color #quotes Click to Tweet Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer then it is, […]
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Read Time: 3 min Quotes About the Color Orange The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bring or the Earth, which is looking down upon us all the time. And to find orange soil on the moon was a surprise.Eugene Cernan, American naval officer, […]
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Read Time: 4 min Quotes About Color White Such a magnificent sky, and it’s nothing but white paper! Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French Impressionist painter, 1841-1919Background image credit: Aldro T. Hibbard Never use pure white; it doesn’t exist in nature.Aldro T. Hibbard, American painter, 1886-1972 Never use pure white; it doesn’t exist in nature. – Aldro T. Hibbard #color #quotes Click to […]
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Read Time: 4 min Quotes About the Color Pink I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I […]
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Read Time: 4 min Quotes About the Color Black There’s something about black. You feel hidden away in it.Georgia O’Keeffe, American painter recognized as the “Mother of American Modernism”, 1887-1986 There’s something about black. You feel hidden away in it. – Georgia O’Keeffe #color #quotes Click to Tweet Background image credit: Edouard Manet Public Domain Black is not a color.Edouard […]
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Read Time: 3 min Quotes About the Color Brown Insert Image God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.Anne Sexton, American poet and Pulitzer prize winner, 1928-1974Background image credit: Winston Churchill Public domain US I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.Winston […]
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Read Time: 4 min Quotes About Color Green My father pointed to the moon and asked me what color it was. I couldn’t tell. So he told me to look at the horizon and then glance back quickly at the moon. Then I saw it: it was pale green. Alden Baker, American painter, b. 1928 Green is the prime color […]
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Read Time: 4 min Quotes About the Color Yellow How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch Post-Impressionist painter, 1853-1890 How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun. – Vincent Van Gogh #color #quotes Click to Tweet Background image credit: Edgar Degas Public Domain What a horrible thing yellow is.Edgar Degas, French realist/Impressionist painter and […]
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Read Time: 4 min There is a reason blue is named most often as a favorite color. Blue is the color of the sea, sky, and blue jeans. See pictures with the best quotes about blue.
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Color Quotes Graphics: Renoir to Shahn“I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn’t turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.” — Pierre-Auguste Renoir French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919Image credit: Sensational Color“With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as […]
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Color Quotes Graphics: Van Gogh to Wilde“Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.” — Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch Post-Impressionist Painter, 1853–1890Image credit: Sensational Color“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day,” — Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch Post-Impressionist Painter, 1853–1890Image credit: Sensational Color“The Mediterranean has the […]
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