1. Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. -Claude Monet
2. Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. -Antoni Gaudi
3. All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul — when you look at it, it’s looking back at you. -Uniek Swain
4. Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. -Oscar Wilde
5. Color is only beautiful when it means something. -Robert Henri
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6. Color should be used to depict the three major emotions in a man’s life—anticipation, realization and retrospection. -Ernest Lawson
7. Color does not add a pleasant quality to design – it reinforces it. -Pierre Bonnard
8. Coloring outside the lines is a fine art. -Kim Nance
9. Colors are the smiles of nature. -Leigh Hunt
10. Each color lives by its mysterious life. -Wassily Kandinsky
11. I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it’s at its most powerful. -A.S. Byatt
12. All colours will agree in the dark. -Francis Bacon
13. A dominant colour possesses tremendous power in making a painting unique. -Mary Bassi
14. Color… thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes. -Charles Baudelaire
15. Colour is a creative element, not a trimming. -Piet Zwart
16. Color is an intense experience on its own. -Jim Hodges
17. Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings. -Marion Milner
18. Good colour really means good taste; and ‘powerful’ colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not ‘red, white, and blue all over. -John F. Carlson
19. It almost always happens that true, but exaggerated, coloring is more agreeable than absolute coloring. -Michel Eugene Chevreul
20. Colors express the main psychic functions of man. -Carl Gustav Jung
21. Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature. -Walter J. Phillips
22. Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege. -Keith Crown
23. Colors speak all languages. -Joseph Addison
24. Colours are brighter when the mind is open. -Adriana Alarcon
25. A color is as strong as the impression it creates. -Ivan Albright
26. Color is the fruit of life. -Guillaume Apollinaire
27. Color, rather than shape, is more closely related to emotion. -David Katz
28. Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity. -Edouard Manet
29. Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught. -Eugene Delacroix
30. Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark. -Sam Francis
