Quotes About Blue

Never has a pigment been better named than ultramarine blue. Fashionable, even today, in its nomenclature! It is ultra in every way.

Karen Fitzgerald, American painter

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.

John Ruskin, leading English art critic, watercolorist, draughtsman, art patron, and
philanthropist, 1819-1900

Two colors are enough, just blue and white – more might be a nightmare. (Commenting on the works of Douglas Walker)

Jennifer Kostuik, Owner, Kostuik Gallery,

Let the blue sky meet the blue sea and all is blue for a time.

Moncy Barbour, American poet and painter, 1952-2014

If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.

Paul Gauguin, French Post-Impressionist painter, 1848-1903

There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, French novelist, 1873-1954

Blue is the only color which maintains its own character in all its tones… it will always stay blue; whereas yellow is blackened in its shades, and fades away when lightened; red when darkened becomes brown, and diluted with white is no longer red, but another color – pink.

Raoul Dufy, French Fauvist painter, 1877-1953

The only color I don’t have is navy brown.

Yogi Berra American Major League Baseball Catcher, Manager, and Hall of Fame Honoree, 1925-2015

This distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.

Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet, 1777-1844

Blue is the closest color to truth.

Steven Tyler, American singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the rock band Aerosmith, b. 1948