Quotes About Gray

The color of truth is gray.

Andre Gide, French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951

Better gray than garishness.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French Neoclassical painter, 1780-1867

A gray day provides the best light.

Leonardo da Vinci, an Italian polymath and painter, 1452-1519

Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.

Gerhard Richter, German visual artist, b. 1932

The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all color.

Odilon Redon, French symbolist painter, 1840-1916

If you take an intense color and put an intense complement next to it without graying it, it’s very hot. The gray allows the eye to do the visual mixing.

Simmie Knox American painter, b. 1935

If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color? I’ve tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!

Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman and printmaker, 1901-1966

If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.

Madeleine Kunin, American diplomat and politician, b. 1933

Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather.

William Dean Hamilton, American author

Gray is great. People think gray is a neutral, but I think it's such a moody, intense, dramatic and sexy color. It's very sleek.

Bryan Batt, American actor, b. 1963