Best Color Thoughts
3174 Color quotes by 2055 unique authors
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Whether the psychological effect of color is direct...or whether it is the outcome of association, is open to question. The soul being one with the…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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Seek for the boldest color possible, content is irrelevant.
— Henri Matisse
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The main function of color should be to serve expression.
— Henri Matisse
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
— Henri Matisse
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
— Henri Matisse
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It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
— Henri Matisse
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Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.
— Henri Matisse
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My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.
— Henri Matisse
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Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.
— Henri Matisse
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A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
— Henri Matisse
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A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
— Henri Matisse
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Color deceives continuously.
— Josef Albers
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We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
— Josef Albers
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Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make an arbitrary use of color to express myself more forcefully.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.
— Robert Delaunay
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a…
— Roy Lichtenstein
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The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.
— Piet Mondrian
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Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms.
— Piet Mondrian
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
— Paul Cezanne
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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
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There is no model, there is only color.
— Paul Cezanne
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It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain an airy feeling.
— Paul Cezanne
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I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.
— Pablo Picasso
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