Quotes and thoughts about colors
Whether you are repainting your furniture or other surfaces in your home, color is at the heart of every painting project. It's a way of experiencing and enjoying life - from art and fashion to the emotions we experience when we see different colors. No one loves color more than the Frenchic team!
In this sense, it is no surprise that there are so many great quotes and thoughts about colors. Yellow, green, black - pinks and blues! Throughout time, influential people, artists from designers to singers and philosophers have used colors as their subject and inspiration. Read what ideas we found about colors:
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" I prefer living in color ." - "I prefer to live in the midst of colors."
-David Hockney
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Yellow
“ You create your own decoration. You choose your colour, you choose your mood…. If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy. "
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"You yourself create your own interior. You choose your colors, you choose your own atmosphere..... If you're depressed, you put a little bright yellow and suddenly you're happy."
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Philippe Starck
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Pink
“ Pink isn't just a colour, it's an attitude! "
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"Pink isn't just a color - it's an attitude!"
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Miley Cyrus
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Green
" They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and Emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like. But that particular green, never. "
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"They sell you thousands of shades of green. Verona green and emerald green and cadmium green and whatever green you want. But that one particular green, never."
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Pablo Picasso
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Colors, patterns and textures
" Travel to exotic places informs me as a designer as to pattern, color, and texture usually expressed in local crafts ."
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"Travels to exotic places give me, as a designer, information and inspiration about the patterns, colors and structures that local crafts usually embody."
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Richard to Misha
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Neutral and light shades
" Tonal and subtle color combinations allow us to mix furniture and pieces from different eras together to create a cohesive narrative ."
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"Using shades and subtle color combinations, we can mix furniture and objects from different eras together to create a cohesive story."
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Rafael de Cárdenas
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Red
"When I haven't any blue, I use red."
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"When I run out of blue, I use red."
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Pablo Picasso
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Colors and shades
“ Colour! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams .”
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"Colours! What an interesting and mysterious language, the language of dreams."
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Paul Gauguin
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Red
There is a shade of red for every woman. "
– Audrey Hepburn
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The power of colors
" Color is a power which directly influences the soul ."
– Wassily Kandinksy
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Perfect black
“ If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it. "
– JMW Turner
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Color mood
" I am a believer that color affects people's moods ."
– Lilly Pulitzer
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Color mood
“ All colors arouse specific associative ideas… ”
- Yves Klein
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Natural colors and shades
" If one could only catch that true color of nature – the very thought of it drives me mad ." —Andrew Wyeth
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Neutral and soft beige
"Beige is atmosphere. It's bisque, it's ivory, it's cream, it's stone, it's toast, it's cappuccino. It's well, it's magic ." —Albert Hadley
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The message of colors
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" I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way ." – Georgia O'Keeffe
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The colors of dreams
" Listen to the color of your dreams. "
– The Beatles
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The best tone
" The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you ."
– Coco Chanel
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Green
" Remember, green's your color. You are spring ."
—Gwendolyn Brooks
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Shades of the world
" There's a reason we don't see the world in black and white. "
— Celery Kemble
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Red
“ Red is the Ultimate Cure for sadness. "
—Bill Blass
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The light of colors
" 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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Color choice
" 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 Cézanne
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The energy of colors
" With color one obtains an energy that seems to Stem from witchcraft. "
–Henri Matisse
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Pink
“ Pink is the navy blue of India. "
—Diana Vreeland
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The real black one
" Black is a real sensation, even if it is produced by the entire absence of light. The Sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all Sensation .” – Hermann von Helmhoz
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Blue gray
" You think it's one color but it's not. Closer and closer the folds appear not a Deeper blue gray but a heavier one and finally just inches above the trees it's a small bright seam full of smoke, not really bright but allowing the day as much as it needs ." — Eileen Myles
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Different shades of white
“ If time were a colour, I bet it would be a tasteful off-white. "
– Greg Parrish
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Violet
" All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul. Purple is not just a Noun and an adjective, but also a verb. When you look at it, it's looking back at you .” – Uniek Swain
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The effect of colors
" The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings. ” – Eugene Delacroix
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Feel free to try your favorite shades
"Life is about using the whole box of crayons."
– RuPaul
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Try and test different shades
" You can never judge a paint Hue by the liquid color in the paint pot. You must apply it to the wall, wait for the paint to dry, then decide. " – Dorothy Draper
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Favourite colour
“ I never met a color I didn't like. "
-Dale Chihuly
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Colorful nature
" I sense a Scream passing through nature. I painted... the clouds as actual blood. The color shrieked ." – Edvard Munch
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Orange, blue, purple, yellow...
" If we were to imagine an orange on the blue side or violet on the yellow side, it would give us the same impression as a north wind coming from southwest. " – Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Contrasting colors and tone pairs
" All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites ." – Marc Chagall
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A glow of color
“ Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by colour. ” – Paul Cezanne
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The power of color
Color is a power which directly influences the soul. "
― Wassily Kandinsky
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Dare to try new shades
" Nothing haunts us like a paint color we didn't buy "
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The message of colors
" Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways ." -Oscar Wilde
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Lots of color
“ No small dabs of color - you want plenty of paint to paint with. "
—John Singer Sargent
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Emotions of colors
“ Colours, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. "
- Pablo Picasso
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The message of colors
"Colours speak all languages. "
—Joseph Addison
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Colors
Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference! "
–Josef Albers
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Match the colors
“ Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? ” – Pablo Picasso
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Vibrant colors
"Each color is applied to the Canvas in relation to the colors next to it. The painting becomes a living thing and calls out for the color it wants. ” – Neil Patterson
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What do colors mean to you?
Color is only beautiful when it means something. "
—Robert Henry
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" The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the Canvas ." – Edvard Munch
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Color
“ Colour… thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes. "
–Charles Baudelaire
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The beauty of colors
"Each color has its own beauty and individuality, which you may accept or reject ." —Joen Wolfrom
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Painting time!
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