Color Quotes

• Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Photography, Enthusiasm For Life, Enthusiasm

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• Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Mysterious, Language

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Nature, Nymphs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.17, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Design, Emotion

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Life, Skins, May

  Towne v. Eisner (1918)

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• There is a paradise of form and colors in the world. And because you have eyes still in good condition, you can get in touch with the paradise. So when I become aware of my eyes, I touch one of the conditions of happiness. And when I touch it, happiness comes.

  Nhat Hanh

  Eye, World, Paradise

  "Oprah Talks to Master Thich Nhat Hanh, the beloved buddhist Vietnamese monk: The Oprah's Exclusive Interview". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, onmogul.com.

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• Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.

  Joseph Addison

  Eye, Rainbow, Delight

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.499

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  I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Children

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• Colors speak all languages.

  Joseph Addison

  Language, Speak

  Joseph Addison (1761). “The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;”, p.468

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• When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.

  Doris Lessing

  People, Political, Bars

  Doris May Lessing (1968). “Going home”

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• A simple way to make sure that you are getting a balanced diet is to include the six tastes (sweet, salty, sour, pungent, bitter, and astringent) in each meal. Along with the six tastes, filling your plate with the colors of the rainbow promotes a long and healthy life.

  Deepak Chopra

  Sweet, Simple, Rainbow

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• Just as the pure crystal takes color from the object which is nearest to it, so the mind, when it is cleared of thought-waves, achieves sameness or identity with the object of its concentration.

  Patanjali

  Mind, Identity, Crystals

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• Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.

  Allen Klein

  Attitude, Positive Thinking, Positivity

  "Soul Rays: Discover the Vibratory Frequency of Your Soul". Book by Candia L Sanders, p. 125, 2013.

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• Colors are the smiles of nature.

  Leigh Hunt

  Smile, Nature

  LEIGH HUNT (1864). “The Seer”, p.36

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• Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Real, Psychics, Body

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• Life is about using the whole box of crayons.

  RuPaul

  Life, Teacher, Appreciation

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• The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Thinking

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• Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?

  Pablo Picasso

  Two, Next, Crayon

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• Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.

  Paul Klee

  Brain, Universe

  Paul Klee, Will Grohmann (1985). “Paul Klee”, Harry N. Abrams

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• She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Said, Feels

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• The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature. We do not depend upon any external help in meditation. The touch of the soul can paint the brightest color even in the dingiest places; it can cast a fragrance over the vilest thing; it can make the wicked divine-and all enmity, all selfishness is effaced.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Meditation, Soul

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.15, editionNEXT.com

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• Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

  John Ruskin

  God, Men, Divine

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• Our entire being is nourished by color.

  Hans Hofmann

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• And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.

  Shel Silverstein

  Stay Strong, Life Lesson, Crayon

  Shel Silverstein, “Colors”

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• It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

  Hans Hofmann

  Form

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