28th Jun. '08 • Quotes About Color •
Filed as Quote of the day
“As a picture painted in yellow always radiates spiritual warmth, or as one in blue has apparently a cooling effect, so green is only boring.”
Wassily Kandinsky
“Almost without exception, blue refers to the domain of abstraction and immateriality.”
Wassily Kandinsky
26th Jun. '08 • Quotes About Color •
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“Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men this restfulness has a beneficial effect, but after a time it becomes tedious.”
Wassily Kandinsky
“Color is so much a matter of direct and immediate perception that any discussion of theory needs to be accompanied by experiments with the colors themselves.”
Walter Sargent
“It is the sense of unfamiliar envelopment that is impressive, whether in the living grays of hoarfrost, the crimson of the heavens at sunset, or the golden suffusions of autumn.”
Walter J. Phillips
“In painting, whether colour reflection is apparent or not, every hue must echo neighbouring hues, so that homogeneity may be attained.”
Walter J. Phillips
“Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.”
Walter J. Phillips
“The painter of the future will be a colorist in a way no one has been before.”
Vincent Van Gogh
“Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors… for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.”
Vincent Van Gogh
19th Jun. '08 • Products & Packaging Color • Tags: automotive, black, blue, Color Trends, red, silver, white
Filed as Color fun
U.S. News reports that “People who own emerald green automobiles…have the most positive attitude about the course of their own lives. Dark blue and silver are other colors chosen by upbeat people.”
The article goes on to say that, “Red supposedly connotes an aggressive, high-speed personality, while yellow, theoretically, is for folks with sunny dispositions. But survey data show that people who drive red or yellow cars have below-average confidence. And black cars, supposedly a sign of power and elegance, are driven by the most downbeat drivers of all.” (more…)
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