Choices Quote by Henri Matisse

Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at…

— Henri Matisse

The importance of colour is as nothing compared with that of form, chiaroscuro and arrangement. They are the true and enduring bases of pictorial…

— Walter J. Phillips

Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our…

— Henri Matisse

“Experts agree that color can stimulate emotions which evoke different responses. Simply by changing colors, you can change moods, communication, perceptions, energy, and expectations.”

— Susan C. Young

Color was not given to us in order that we imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.

— Henri Matisse

Colors are things we experience.

— Alva Noe

“Research has shown that different colors represent different character qualities and have a powerful psychological effect. Color portrays different meanings in life and in…

— Susan C. Young

I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.

— Adolph Gottlieb

Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must be felt…

— Jules Olitski

Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings.

— Matthew Collings

Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.

— Henri Matisse

Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn