All Posts by Kate Smith

Read Time: 2 minIn order to get something done you may have to cut through red tape. Here is why such a frustrating hindrance is associated with red.

Read Time: < 1 minuteColor plays a major role in brand identity and smart companies use color wisely to stand out. The H&R Block green brand color is a great example.

Read Time: 3 minHenri Matisse quotes come out of a six-decade career in working in all media, from painting to sculpture to printmaking. His revolutionary use of brilliant color and exaggerated form to express emotion made him one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.

Read Time: 3 minLudwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. Wittgenstein quotes about color indicate he had a keen interest in art, too.

Read Time: 2 minLeonardo da Vinci was a leading artist and intellectual of the Italian Renaissance who’s known for his enduring works “The Last Supper” and “Mona Lisa.” Leonardo da Vinci quotes reveal his genius across a wide range of disciplines including color.

Read Time: 3 minAmerican artist, Georgia O’Keeffe quotes show how strongly she felt about color. She is best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes and is recognized as the “Mother of American modernism”.

Read Time: 4 minHave you ever wondered what your life would be like if you were colorblind? I have, and in every instance, I’ve imagined myself missing out on one of the biggest pleasure I have in life–creating with color. It wasn’t until I met Bonnie Auten that I came to realize that what I thought would be […]

Read Time: 5 minIf you want to learn to see and match colors there is no better training ground than learning to duplicating what you see in paint, pastels, or colored pencils. It requires you to really see the color of things. In fact, most artist spend as much time looking at what they are painting as they […]

Read Time: 2 minAlthough there are only two Joseph Addison quotes I have found about color, “Colors speak all languages” and “Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors” are two of my favorites among the hundreds of color quotes I have gathered. If you aren’t familiar with Joseph Addison, he was an English […]

Read Time: < 1 minuteSyracuse University orange became the official school color in 1940 after experimenting with what most today would consider “unsportsmanlike” colors.

Read Time: 3 minTo produce a TRUE International Klein Blue, the specific process of dry pigments and synthetic resin must be followed. The majority of manufacturers today use Yves Klein Blue as a color direction and then match it as best they can with their own processes and therefore are not really true patented Yves Klein Blue.

Read Time: 3 minJohn Slosn was a twentieth-century painter and etcher and one of the founders of the Ashcan school of American art.

Read Time: < 1 minuteSprint yellow has been claimed as the color the company thinks will allow their brand to stand out in the crowded telecommunications space.

Read Time: 3 minDid 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.

Read Time: 3 minHans Hofmann was an influential 20th century a German-born American art teacher whose work paved the way for abstract expressionism. Hofmann The selected Hans Hofmann quotes reveal how he thought about color.