emotional response to color Quotes

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

I wouldn't know what to do with [colour]. Colour to me is too real. It's limiting. It doesn't allow too much of a dream. The more you throw black into a colour, the more dreamy it gets… Black has depth. It's like a little egress; you can go into it, and because it keeps on continuing to be dark, the mind kicks in, and a lot of things that are going on in there become manifest. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.

Our entire being is nourished by color.

The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life. At every era of his existence and his history, the human being has associated colour with his joys, his actions and his pleasures.

We become intoxicated with color, with words that speak of color, and with the sun that makes colors brighter.

It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent.

Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life

A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres.

I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation

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

In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposefully sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key.

Red is a strong, happy, optimistic color, and I like having fun with it, you know? Like, when colors clash - I love that strangeness.

Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.

Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation--the realization of an idea by an act of the will.

The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music.