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 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: 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: 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: Maisel to Milner“The artist who pictures sounds as colours, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another… is not attending to what the world considers important.” — Eric Maisel, American Psychotherapist, Teacher, Author, b. 1947shutterstock_176889830.epsShutterstockImage credit: Sensational Color“Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.” […]
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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: O’Keefe to Reid“Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my experience with the flower – and what is my experience if it is not the color?” — Georgia O’Keeffe, American painter recognized as the “Mother of […]
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Color Quotes Graphics: Wittgenstein to Zwart“Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn’t. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.” — Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher, 1889-1951Image credit: Sensational Color“Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris […]
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Color Quotes Graphics: Miro to Nolde“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.” ~ Joan Miro, Spanish Surrealist Painter and Sculptor, 1893-1983Image credit: Sensational Color“I choose color on the spur of the moment. People ask me why I paint in red. I do not have the slightest idea. […]
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Sayings Including Quotes About the Color Brown to Make You Smile“His is the greatest palette of France and no one beneath our skies possessed to a greater extent than he both the serene and the pathetic, the vibration of color. We all paint through him.” — Paul Cezanne, French Post-Impressionist Painter, 1839-1906Image credit: Paul Cezanne […]
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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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George Bernard Shaw to the Pop of Color Quote by UnknownThese shareable graphics include two of my favorites, which are both from unknown sources — Why Color? and Be a Pop of Color quote and many more from famous people like Frank Sinatra, John Sloan, and Zoltan Szabo.“Don’t order any black things. Rejoice in his […]
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Read Time: 11 min Understanding the color characteristics of hue value chroma allows you to be better at selecting precisely the right colors & creating harmonious color schemes.
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Color Quotes Graphics: Klee to Lubbock“Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.” ~ Paul Klee Swiss Expressionist Painter, 1879-1940Image credit: Sensational Color“Colour and I are one. I am a painter.” — Paul Klee, […]
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Color Quotes Graphics: Hoffman to Kandinsky“Color is a plastic means of creating intervals… color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.” — Hans Hofmann, German-born American painter and influential 20th century art teacher whose work paved […]
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