C Quotes
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“Color is a major element in scale. A small room can have a larger look by the use of closely related values, hues, and intensity. A large room can be made to look smaller by marked contrasts of color and value, hue, and intensity. Value is one of the most important elements. Whether light or dark, little value contrast makes for unity, and sharper contrast makes for stronger punctuation.”
“Color is a matter of taste and sensitivity.”
“Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.”
“Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force.”
“Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force. When less color and less intense color is present, trace amounts and subtle differences become highly significant and are strongly felt.”
“Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.”
“Color is a very personal thing. You need to make sure to choose a color that makes you happy. But I don't recommend accent walls - choose a color you can live with on all four walls.”
“Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.”
“Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.”
“Color is an intense experience on its own.”
“Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.”
Source: Sam Francis: black and white lithographs, 1963-1975
“Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.”
“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 generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you're trying to make.”
“Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.”
“Color is enslaved by line, that becomes writing.”
Source: Yves Klein
“Color is everything. When color is right, form is right.”
“Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.”
“Color is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.”
“Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends color to the spoken word, color lends spiritually realized sound to a form.”
“Color is life; for a world without color appears to us as dead. Colors are primordial ideas, the children of light.”
“Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!”
“Color is like food for the spirit - plus it's not addictive or fattening.”
“Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.”
“Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.”
“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.”
Source: Claude Monet
“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.”
“Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.”
“Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.”
“Color is not defined by meaning, but shaped by relationships. Like notes in music, colors only gain meaning through their interaction.”
“Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.”
Source: The relations and duties of free colored men in America to Africa: A letter to Charles B. Dunbar ...
“Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my efforts to create an equivalent with paint color for the world, life as I see it.”
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: paintings of Hawai'i
“Color is one of the most important and distinctive elements in enhancing your image. Wearing the colors which are best matched to your personality, energy, skin tone, hair color, and body type will make you look healthier, more vibrant, confident, successful, and approachable.”
Source: The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact
“Color is one way the eye and the brain work together to define the external world. However, not all cultures see color in the same way, nor do they give it as much importance as in western culture.”
Source: Exploring Color
“Color is only beautiful when it means something.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“Color is seductive. It changes as it interacts with other colors, it changes because of the light falling upon it, and it changes as it becomes larger in size.”
Source: Light, Gesture, and Color
“Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.”
“Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form.”
“Color is something we see with our eyes, but love is something we see with our heart.”
Source: Do You Love Someone?
“Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.”
“Color is the fruit of life.”
“Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.”
“Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.”
Source: Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912
“Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.”
“Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.”
Source: Crown: Keith Crown, Painter : University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 30-July 21, 1967
“Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.”
“Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.”
Source: Paul Klee
“Color is the soul's softest whisper, a tender touch in darkness, yet it reveals itself neither through fragility nor delicacy, but through a pronounced courage.”
“Color is the soul’s softest whisper,... a tender touch in darkness, yet it reveals itself neither through fragility nor delicacy,... but through a pronounced courage.” ― Jayita Bhattacharjee”
“Color is the thing I'm best known for. If people pigeonhole me, so what? Long live the pink dress!”
“Color is to the soul what food is to the body.”