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
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What a horrible thing yellow is.
Edgar Degas, French realist/Impressionist painter and sculptor, 1834-1917
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Yellow wakes me up in the morning. Yellow gets me on the bike every day. Yellow has taught me the true meaning of sacrifice. Yellow makes me suffer. Yellow is the reason I am here.
Lance Armstrong, American professional road racing cyclist, b. 1971
My favorite color to glaze with is yellow. It always glows just like stained glass lit up by the sun.”
Jane Jones, contemporary watercolorist
Golden is a surface color.
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher, 1889-1951
Oh yes! He loved yellow, did good Vincent… When the two of us were together in Arles, both of us insane, and constantly at war over beautiful colors, I adored red; where could I find a perfect vermilion?
Paul Gauguin, French Post-Impressionist painter, 1848-1903
A yellow room gives you perpetual sunshine.
Steve Hovland, American artist
A yellow room gives you perpetual sunshine. - Steve Hovland #color #quotes
How do you paint yellow wheat against a yellow sky? You paint it jet black.
Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-born American social realist painter and photographer, 1898-1969
Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the color was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow in Indian miniatures. Although yellow occupies one-twentieth of the spectrum, it is the brightest color.
Michael Derek Elworthy, English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, and author, 1942–1994
I was for years in the yellow period, you know.
Josef Albers, German-born American abstract painter and designer, 1888-1976
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