Colour Quotes - Page 4

• If I'm feeling down in the dumps, or like I need a pop of colour, I'll put on MAC's Lipstick in Lady Danger. I discovered red lipstick when I did the Oscar season: Chanel sent me one and I realised how classic and glamorous it can be.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Feeling Down, Red Lipstick, Feelings

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• I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.

  Benjamin Banneker

  God, Gratitude, Science

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• The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood.

  Alice Meynell

  Heart, Blood, Color

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.115, eBookIt.com

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• I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially... black, white and grey. There is a certain need in me for communication with human beings. Black and white is writing.

  Hans Arp

  Communication, Writing, Black And White

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• The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Eye, Violet, Vibrations

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• Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Epic, Philosopher, Poet

  Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

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• Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Black And White, Color, Green

  Vincent van Gogh, Colta Feller Ives (2005). “Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings”, p.173, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• 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

  Color, Law, Drawing

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• Heavens, how charming it is! There is now in the sky only the soft vaporous color of pale citron - the last reflection of the sun which plunges into the dark blue of the night, going from green tones to a pale turquoise of an unheard-of fineness and a fluid delicacy quite indescribable.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Dark, Night, Reflection

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• 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

  Powerful, Mean, Blue

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• I only use three primaries, so the nice thing is I can't have favorite colors.

  Chuck Close

  Nice, Color, Three

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• All students need to know about color is the basic color wheel and complimentary colors. There are many books on color theory; do not waste your time and money.

  Sergei Bongart

  Book, Color, Needs

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• It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the company of his betters.

  El Greco

  Struggle, Artist, Color

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• The range in brightness from the purple glow [of the sunset] to the dark sky above is too great for most films, and naturally it is beyond the range of printed pictures.

  James Elkins

  Sunset, Dark, Sky

  James Elkins (2007). “How to Use Your Eyes”, p.215, Routledge

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• If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat's 'purple-stained mouth,' or perhaps even of Homer's dangerously wine-dark sea.

  Victoria Finlay

  Wine, Dark, Color

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• All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution.

  Asher Brown Durand

  Artist, Color, Achievement

  Linda S. Ferber, Asher Brown Durand (2007). “Kindred spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American landscape”, D Giles Ltd

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• There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.

  Arnold Friberg

  Paint, Knows, Tubes

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• It almost always happens that true, but exaggerated, coloring is more agreeable than absolute coloring.

  Michel Eugene Chevreul

  Color, Happens, Absolutes

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• You put a blob of yellow here, and another at the further edge of the canvas: straight away a rapport is established between them. Colour acts in the way that music does.

  Georges Braque

  Yellow, Doe, Way

  "Cahiers d'art" by Dora Vallier, p. 16, 1954.

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• There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in blue, then you must put in yellow, and orange too, mustn't you? Oh well, you will tell me that what I write to you are only banalities.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Writing, Blue, Yellow

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2736, Delphi Classics

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• For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

  Maxwell Bodenheim

  Wind, Poetry, Paint

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• When I think of flavours, I think colour, so lemon should be yellow and orange is orange.

  Dylan Lauren

  Thinking, Yellow, Orange

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• Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.

  Georges Braque

  Space, Giving, Conception

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• It is not by his mixing and choosing, but by the shapes of his colors, and the combination of those shapes, that we recognize the colorist. Color becomes significant only when it becomes form.

  Clive Bell

  Color, Mixing, Shapes

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• The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Mirrors, Color, Brilliant

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