Color Significance Quotes

Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.

Red has always been my color, because red stands out.

If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.

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

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

Dark green is my favorite color. It's the color of nature and the color of money and the color of moss!

First of all the name, and the color purple, I think those two things distinguish the Vikings as much as anything. You go anywhere in the country and say 'Vikings,' they know exactly where you are. You say 'Cardinals,' well, Cardinals who? There are a dozen Cardinals teams in the country in professional and amateur sports.

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my experience with the flower - and what is my experience if it is not the color?

Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace.

Our entire being is nourished by color.

Color is everything. When color is right, form is right.

With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!

It is not by his mixing and choosing, but by the shapes of his colors, and the combination of those shapes, that we recognize the colorist. Color becomes significant only when it becomes form.

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

Standing on the Moon looking back at Earth - this lovely place you just came from - you see all the colours, and you know what they represent. Having left the water planet, with all that water brings to Earth in terms of colour and abudance life, the absence of water and atmosphere on the desolate surface of the Moon gives rise to a stark contrast.

Many great works of art have only form, the sculpture of the thing. Color as used to signify realization by men like Titian and Rembrandt, gives greater life and tactile experience to the work.

Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.

Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

When I was a kid, my mother used to drive my father to work in Indianapolis, and I would see, practically every day of my young life, a huge Phillips 66 sign. So it is the red and green of that sign against the blue Hoosier sky. The blue in the 'Love' is cerulean. Therefore, my 'Love' is an homage to my father.

Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.

Color cannot stand alone.