Best Color Wisdom
3174 Color quotes by 2055 unique authors
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When I haven't any blue I use red.
— Pablo Picasso
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I want to know one thing, what is color?
— Pablo Picasso
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If you are moved only by the color relationships, then you miss the point.
— Mark Rothko
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Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
— Claude Monet
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Above all, keep your colors fresh!
— Edouard Manet
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Black is not a color.
— Edouard Manet
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Color is a matter of taste and sensitivity.
— Edouard Manet
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Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
— Paul Gauguin
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Colors speak all languages.
— Joseph Addison
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Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.
— John French Sloan
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Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.
— Keith Crown
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One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men.
— Henri Michaux
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Don't be afraid of putting on color, refine the work little by little.
— Camille Pissarro
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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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It is still color, it is not yet light.
— Pierre Bonnard
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In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
— Hans Hofmann
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Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
— Edward Thorndike
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I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete.…
— Norman Cousins
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I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can…
— Mark Twain
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There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained…
— Thomas Paine
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
— George Eliot
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My life was once whiskey, tears and cigarettes... now it's snot, tears and a color of poop. Bliss. I do miss the whiskey, though.
— Pink
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows…
— John Quincy Adams
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In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time…
— George Washington Carver
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When God made the color purple, God was just showing off.
— Mae Jemison
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