Color Appreciation Quotes

I'm not afraid of color. I like color.

There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!

Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great any of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color.

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

There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.

I learned my color in Europe. I've always been a colorist, I think. I started when I was very young, being a bird-watcher, fascinated by the bird colors.

Oh yes! He loved yellow, did good Vincent...When the two of us were together in Arles, both of us insane, and constantly at war over beautiful colors, I adored red; where could I find a perfect vermilion?

I really love color.

All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.

My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.

Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.

I could never before say that I loved color or that I understood color. But Oscar de la Renta opened up a side of my brain.

I never allowed myself the luxury of those brilliant, beautiful colors until I went to India and saw people walking around in them or dragging them in the mud. I realised they were not so artificial.

Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Not enough people enjoy working with color, which delights and inspires me.

I think purple is a great color.

Grey is one of my favorite colors.

Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I'm drawn to rich and beautiful colors.

I love every color!

I love all shades of blue, but electric blue tops the list.

I have trained my eye over and over ever since I was a kid. I was a bird watcher when I was a little boy. My grandmother gave me a bird book, and I got to like their colors.

Yellow's never been a good color for me, but it's actually grown on me. I like it more than I used to!

The fact is, that of all God's gifts to the sight of man, color, is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. We speak rashly of gay color and sad color, for color cannot at once be good and gay. All good color is in some degree pensive, the loveliest is melancholy, and the purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.

I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.