Color is one of the prominent topics for artists, philosophers, researchers and other intellects. Some of them would describe it as an optical illusion due to reflection and refraction, whereas others would call it an expression. But no one can deny the fact that it’s beauty is quite evident. We have put together some unique color quotes from great artists and designers, expressing their love for colors that can inspire you.
Anything boring can be transformed just with a splash of color. If you have seen any black and white movie, you already know that colors make things more lively. It has a special power to make our lives much brighter and harmonious. Find your favorite inspiring quotes about colors and share it with your friends to cheer them up with some vividness.
1. Color is the overpowering of black; white the final victory over black.-Dejan Stojanovic
2. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.-John French Sloan
3. Fall colors are funny. They’re so bright and intense and beautiful. It’s like nature is trying to fill you up with color, to saturate you so you can stockpile it before winter turns everything muted and dreary.-Siobhan Vivian
4. Colour creates, enhances, changes, reveals and establishes the mood of the painting.-Kiff Holland
5. Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.-Joanna Field
6. Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.-Antonio Gaudi
7. Color is simply energy, energy made visible. Colors stimulate or inhibit the functioning of different parts of our body. Treatment with the appropriate color can restore balance and normal functioning.-Laurie Buchanan
8. Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.-Oscar Wilde
9. Colors are forces, radiant energies that affect us positively or negatively, whether we are aware of it or not.-Johannes Itten
10. Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.-Wassily Kandinsky
11. Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.-John Sterling
12. Color is determined by amount, application and placement.-Charles Emerson
13. Red was ruby, green was fluorescent, yellow was simply incandescent. Color was life. Color was everything. Color, you see, was the universal sign of magic.-Tahereh Mafi
14. Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.-Kazimir Malevich
15. All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.-Marc Chagall
16. There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.-Paul Cezanne
17. Colors express the main psychic functions of man.-Carl Jung
18. The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble.-Wassily Kandinsky
19. Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs.-Leigh Hunt
20. The colour of fear is never dark or black; it has the colour of thunderbolt; usually white, but can appear in different hues depending on how the fear travels through to get inside your heart.-Munia Khan
21. Color is a plastic means of creating intervals color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.-Hans Hofmann
22. Color is only beautiful when it means something.-Robert Henri
23. Colors close together on the color wheel are analogous and will make a calm room. Colors that are farther apart are complementary and add drama.-David Bromstad
24. A color strategy is like a recipe for harmony a set of color relationships that are proven to work well and can be used as a formula for building our color composition.-Mitchell Albala
25. Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.-Vincent Van Gogh
26. Color, rather than shape, is more closely related to emotion.-David Katz
27. Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.-Hans Hofmann
28. A color is as strong as the impression it creates.-Ivan Albright
29. Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.-Walter J. Phillips
30. Colors are light’s suffering and joy .-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe