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Quotes About Color

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.
~ John French Sloan
Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.
~ Marc Chagall
I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.
~ John D. MacDonald
Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.
~ Adam Young
My motivation comes from a love of being creative. I'm in love with music and colour and laughter and dancing and all things that are beautiful.
~ RuPaul
In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
~ Hans Hofmann
Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.
~ Henri Matisse
Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.
~ Paul Gauguin
Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.
~ Paul Klee
Orange is the color of the sun. It is vital and a good color generally, indicating thoughtfulness and consideration of others.
~ Edgar Cayce
Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
~ Paul Cezanne
Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.
~ Lauren DeStefano
I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
~ Edvard Munch
Primates are the only animals on the face of the earth that can taste sweet and see color. We were designed by nature to see, grasp, eat, and enjoy the flavor of colorful, sweet fruits.
~ Joel Fuhrman
White does not exist in nature.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to another form on its own, it does not exist.
~ Edouard Vuillard
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
~ Charles Baudelaire
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
~ Paul Cezanne
My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
~ William Shakespeare
Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for the solemn note. Color in nature is never pretty, it's beautiful.
~ Charles Webster Hawthorne
If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.
~ E. J. Hughes
Rich colors are typical of a rich nature.
~ Van Day Truex
My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky.
~ William Wordsworth
I don't even know what my natural color is. Natural? What is natural? What is that? I do not believe in totally natural for women. For me, natural has something to do with vegetables
~ Donatella Versace