Quotes About Color Red
Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.
Taylor Swift, American singer-songwriter, b. 1989
The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.
Alice Meynell, British poet and essayist, 1847–1922
I'm in love with red. I think it's such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red on it. Its power, there's no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you don't. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. They're all magic.
Bryan Batt, American actor, b. 1963
My mother warned me to avoid things colored red.
Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born American pop sculptor, b. 1929
My mother warned me to avoid things colored red. - Claes Oldenburg #color #quotes
Red protects itself. No color is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.
Michael Derek Elworthy, English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener and author, 1942–1994
Painters use red like spice.
Michael Derek Elworthy, English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener and author, 1942–1994
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All my life I've pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It's exactly as if I'd said, "I want Rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple" - they have no idea what I'm talking about.
Diana Vreeland, fashion columnist/editor and consultant to Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1903-1989
You can spend a lifetime studying the interaction of colors, and painting how red can dance, so when the viewer ‘gets it’ and says ‘Aha!’ their way of seeing is transformed.
Gayle Konantz, artists’ responses to ‘Imagine’ by Robert Genn, October 12th, 2004, The Painter’s Key
You can’t go wrong with the use of red; every painting should have red in it.
George De Groat, American painter, 1927-1994
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A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
Henri Matisse, French artist known for the expressive color and form of his Fauvist style, 1869-1954
A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful. - Henri Matisse #color #quotes
Of all the hues, reds have the most potency. If there is one electric blue, a dozen reds are so charged. Use them to punctuate white, burn into bronzes, or dynamite black.
Jack Lenor Larsen, American textile designer, author and collector, b. 1927
If one says ‘Red’ – the name of color – and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.
Josef Albers, German-born American abstract painter and designer, 1888-1976
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, 1841-1919
The ‘pure’ red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters’ caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations…
Robert Motherwell, American abstract Expressionist painter, 1915-1991
Everything utilitarian needs a little red edge.
Reno Dakota, American Filmmaker, b. 1959
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