Color Perception Quotes

Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.

How fast does a zebra have to run before it looks gray.

The earth is blue like an orange.

Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

Color is a big part of what I do. It's like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, but there are endless permutations; there's no limit to the number. Color on the walls or furniture can reflect back and distort the reality of the true colors of lipsticks and eye shadow.

There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating in sparks, dream patterns, figures whimsical and figures grotesque, shifting and clad in complementary colors, to appease the indignant cups and rods of the retina.

Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.

Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter; I use it to enrich the canvas and to probe more deeply into the object. Colour also decided, to a certain extent, my spiritual outlook, but it is subordinated to life, and above all, to the treatment of form. Too much emphasis on colour at the expense of form and space would make a double manifestation of itself on the canvas, and this would verge on craft work.

People didn't know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.

Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle which regulates both the great and the little in the study of a painter.

Think colour! Know how to imagine it!

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!

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?

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

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

How many people have different opinions in this world? Every different person has a different opinion of what that bottle really is or what colour it is. If I say that bottle is clear, there will be someone out there telling me that bottle is green or blue.

Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.

The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic lawof chromatics. Don't look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine.

Black is not a color.

Drawing is of the Spirit and color of the Senses.

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Form your own color concept of things in nature. I have no rules for fine color to give you.