Edgar Degas Quotes

Hate showers, they're weird.

Purple's my favorite color.

Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.

As a picture painted in yellow always radiates spiritual warmth, or as one in blue has apparently a cooling effect, so green is only boring.

I have two favorite colors - white and yellow. White makes me feel light and airy. Yellow makes me happy.

Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.

I am the kind of person that is drawn to colors against my will.

Orange is an underrated color, it's the second most underrated color after yellow.

Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.

I try to focus less on the actual items and more on the way they make me feel. I like color around my face because it does something to me emotionally. I don't like to wear black because it brings me down.

A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.

To the west, the Pacific Ocean, which revulses me, for its vastness cannot be fitted into any box.

It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.

The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.

Anger is a warning signal. It points to problems.

We find from experience that yellow excites a warm and agreeable impression.... The eye is gladdened, the heart expanded and cheered, a glow seems at once to breathe toward us.

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.

Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well.

There should be so much more, not of orange, of words, of how terrible orange is and life.

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

Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.

Deeply buried in the mind, there lies a mechanism that accepts what the mind experiences as beautiful and pleasant and rejects those experiences that are perceived as ugly and painful. This mechanism gives rise to those states of mind that we are training ourselves to avoid-- things like greed, lust, hatred, aversion, and jealousy.

The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.

No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.