Quotes About Color

Tell me what you need to tell me but keep far away from my son who still loves a beautiful thing not for what it means— this way or that—but for the way facets set off prisms and prisms spin up everywhere and from his own jeweled body he's cast rainbows—made every shining true color. Now try to tell me—man or woman—your heart was ever once that brave.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

The beer had the color and taste of baby's pee, but we followed our usual routine and drank with joyless discipline until we both passed out.

The day before yesterday always has been a glamour day. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe.

The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.

I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness.

What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.

To understand blue you must first understand yellow and orange

The cure for him would be to take a good long look at some potato plants, which have lately had such a deep and distinctive colour and tone, instead of driving himself mad looking at pieces of yellow satin and gold leather.

There are two ways of reasoning about painting: how to do it and how not to do it; how to d it with great deal of drawing and not much colour, how not to do it with a great deal of colour and not much drawing.

One night I went for a walk by the sea along the empty shore. It was not gay, but neither was it sad; it was- beautiful. The deep blue sky was flicked with clouds of a blue deeper than the fundamental blue of intense cobalt, and others of a clearer blue, like the blue whiteness of the Milky Way. On the blue depth the stars were sparkling, greenish, yellow, white, rose, brighter, flashing more like jewels than they do even in Paris. The sea was a very deep ultramarine.

În sfârÈ™it, spre marea bucurie a proprietarului, a poÈ™taÈ™ului pe care l-am È™i pictat, a vagabonzilor de noapte È™i a mea însumi, trei nopÈ›i la rând am pictat f?r? întrerupere, dormind în timpul zilei. Fiindc? am impresia adeseori c? noaptea e mai plin? de via?? È™i mai din belÈ™ug colorat? decât ziua.

Como é belo o amarelo!

I should not be surprised if the impressionists soon find fault with my way of working, for it has been fertilized by the ideas of Delacroix rather than by theirs. Because, instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I have before my eyes, I use colour more arbitrarily so as to express myself forcibly.

The more ugly, old, mean, ill, poor I get, the more I want to take my revenge by producing a brilliant colour, well arranged, resplendent. Jewellers too get old and ugly before they learn how to arrange precious stones properly. And arranging the colours in a painting in order to make them vibrate and to enhance their value by their contrasts is something like arranging jewels properly or designing costumes

But since then I've had no chance of getting models, though on the other hand I did have the chance to study the colour question. And if I should find models again for my figures later, then I would hope to be able to show that I am after something other than little green landscapes or flowers.

My dear sister, it is my belief that it is actually one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love. The more ugly, old, mean, ill, poor I get, the more I want to take my revenge by producing a brilliant colour, well arranged, resplendent.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

What if Amyntas is dark? Violets are dark, too, and hyacinths.

It's the gene for anarchy, alive in everyone born into the wrong class, the wrong color, the wrong sex — only in some it stays quiescent, while in some it makes a holocaust — no one knows this better than me.

Sabism is a thematic pallet, philosophical colourism, chromatic signature and dual art, soft scale, poetics of attractiveness, mythologism, actual value, logism of color, active color, logical panel.

BaÅŸlar?nda saç yerine tavuskuÅŸu tüyleri olan ruhlar; bir alev çevriminden bir y?ld?za doÄŸru giden hayalet; ruhun simgesi olan ve yar?ya kadar eliyle gizlediÄŸi yanardöner bir küreyle geçen ruh. Ama hep insan?n k?r?lgan umutlar?na yönelen ÅŸefkatli bir öÄŸüdün gizlediÄŸi renk yeÄŸniliÄŸi alt?nda.

Red is the color of magic in every country, and has been so from the very earliest times. The caps of fairies and magicians are well-nigh always red.