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Quotations About Colors (Pictures)
Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up. ~ Allen Klein
Yellow is the eldest daughter of light… ~ Charles Blanc – Art in Ornament and Dress, “Personal Adornment: Colours and Their Expression,” 1875, translated from French
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No. ~ Pablo Picasso
We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box. ~ Robert Fulghum
The handwriting on the wall means the grandchildren found the crayons. ~ Author Unknown
The expression of blue is one of purity. It…. pleases the poet by its immaterial and celestial character…. It is, moreover, of all colours, that which ascends the highest, and descends the lowest in the scale…. It may be suitable in its light shade for the dress of an innocent maiden, and in its dark for romantic affections and evening thoughts…. solitude, mystery, and silence. ~ Charles Blanc – Art in Ornament and Dress, “Personal Adornment: Colours and Their Expression,” 1875, translated from French
The colour with which nature has tinted the background of all her pictures, green, is the most suitable ground for other colours. It unites wonderfully well with the yellow and blue which have produced it; it heightens red, and there is no flower or ripe fruit which it does not set off to greater advantage…. it is both gay and modest, bright and tender. Green can only awaken amiable and gentle thoughts, remembrances gracious as those of spring, and other promises of nature: green gives repose to the mind, as it does to the sight. ~ Charles Blanc – Art in Ornament and Dress, “Personal Adornment: Colours and Their Expression,” 1875, translated from French
Stop counting crayons, just draw pictures. ~ Mark Scharenbroich
Red is passion-lit, orange is flowerageous, yellow is suntastic, pink is lipsensual, green is lifebursting, blue is skyful, purple is berrydancing, gray is cloudrainy. ~ Terri Guillemets
Red is a favourite colour with all the nations of the world…. Just as it gives life to the human face by making the circulation of the blood transparent, so it animates all surfaces where it appears, and enlivens all the harmonies in which it plays a part…. Occupying a place between the liveliness of light and the quiet of dark colours, red has an expression of dignity, magnificence, and pomp. ~ Charles Blanc – Art in Ornament and Dress, “Personal Adornment: Colours and Their Expression,” 1875, translated from French
Poured a cup of hot sepia coffee in a wisteria flowered mug, dandelion sunshine spilling through the periwinkle sky. ~ Terri Guillemets – “Morning’s Colors”
Pink is not just a color, it’s an attitude. ~ Author Unknown
Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a “colourless” day. Grey is a colour, and can be a very powerful and pleasing colour…. A grey clouded sky is indeed a canopy between us and the sun; so is a green tree, if it comes to that. But the grey umbrellas differ as much as the green in their style and shape, in their tint and tilt. One day may be grey like steel, and another grey like dove’s plumage. One may seem grey like the deathly frost, and another grey like the smoke of substantial kitchens. ~ G.K. Chesterton – Alarms and Discursions, “The Glory of Grey”
No white nor red was ever seen
So amorous as this lovely green. ~ Andrew Marvell – (1621–1678), “Thoughts in a Garden”
No things could seem further apart than the doubt of grey and the decision of scarlet. Yet grey and red can mingle, as they do in the morning clouds… ~ G.K. Chesterton – Alarms and Discursions, “The Glory of Grey”
Never invest in any idea you can’t illustrate with a crayon. ~ Peter Lynch
My skin is kind of sort of brownish
Pinkish yellowish white.
My eyes are greyish blueish green,
But I’m told they look orange in the night.
My hair is reddish blondish brown,
But it’s silver when it’s wet.
And all the colors I am inside
Have not been invented yet. ~ Shel Silverstein – “Colors”
My childhood smells like a box of Crayola crayons. ~ Terri Guillemets
Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air — explode softly — and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth — boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn’t go cheap, either — not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. ~ Robert Fulghum
Mauve is just pink trying to be purple. ~ James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. ~ G.K. Chesterton
Life lesson from the nursery: Broken crayons can still color. ~ Author Unknown
Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the eight-color boxes, but what you’re really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I’ve got a few missing. It’s okay though, because I’ve got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the eight-color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean, there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation, so when I meet someone who’s an eight-color type I’m like, “hey girl, magenta!” and she’s like, “oh, you mean purple!” and she goes off on her purple thing, and I’m like, “no — I want magenta!” ~ John Mayer
Life is about using the whole box of crayons. ~ RuPaul
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. ~ Paul Gauguin
If you’re ever in a jam, a crayon scrunched up under your nose makes a good pretend mustache. ~ “Phil’s-osophy” by Phil Dunphy (Christopher Lloyd, Steven Levitan, and Dan O’Shannon, Modern Family, “Schooled,” original airdate 2012 Oct 10)
If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone. ~ Robert Fulghum
If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others’ cities up in the night in pinks and greens. ~ Yoko Ono
I wish I were a white crayon, that way no one could use me. ~ Author Unknown
I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it’s at its most powerful. ~ A.S. Byatt
I never use colors. Black and white are all I need. Most of my clothes are black and white, too. I suppose the most flamboyant color in my wardrobe is dark brown. ~ Leonard Baskin – (1922–2000)
I love crayons—especially new crayons with no broken tips. I love how they smell—and how smooth they feel between my fingers. I love imagining what marvelous pictures the crayons will create. But what I love most of all are the colors—so many colors. ~ Mary Wince
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. ~ Winston Churchill
For those who fancy coloring books as certain people do
Here’s a new one for you
A most unusual coloring book the kind you never see
Crayons ready, very well begin to color me…
This is the heart that thought he would always be true
Color it blue
These are the arms that held him and touched him then lost him somehow
Color them empty now… ~ Fred Ebb and John Kander – “My Coloring Book,” 1962
Crayons today are more widely used in elementary art programs than any other medium. Indeed, they have become such an accepted part of the classroom scene in the last fifty years that most students are unaware of the part crayons have played in the history of art beginning centuries ago. The was crayon has a distinguished history of use by great artists from Phidias to Picasso, and, today, crayons just like the ones children color with in schools are being used by artists in the fine art and commercial fields in ever increasing numbers. The use of wax as an artist’s material goes back to the golden age of Greek art…. Sometime during the fifteenth century, artists began to mold pigments and binders into colored sticks or “crayons.” ~ Reynolds Girdler, Jr.
” – Crayons in the History of the Arts,” Art Education, January 1967
Colors are the smiles of nature. ~ Leigh Hunt
Coloring outside the lines is a fine art. ~ Kim Nance
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. ~ Claude Monet
Color affects us. Everyone should have a paintbox and a large box of crayons. ~ Dr. SunWolf – 2015 tweet, professorsunwolf.com
Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. Rumors circulate around the schoolyard: kids who draw or wear white socks and bring violins to school on Wednesdays might have cooties. I confess to having yielded to these pressures. ~ Chris Van Allsburg
Biographical sketch, in fugitive crayons, of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. ~ John Pinkerton – 1799
Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world. ~ Murasaki Shikibu
At nightfall, colors disappear. Moon’s paintbrush has only a palette of shadows: creamy gray, inky black, illusive indigo. ~ Dr. SunWolf – 2013 tweet, professorsunwolf.com
Artists can color the sky red because they know it’s blue. Those of us who aren’t artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we’re stupid. ~ Jules Feiffer
Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons. ~ Al Hirschfeld
All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul — when you look at it, it’s looking back at you. ~ Uniek Swain
Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself. ~ Louis L’Amour
A mixture of light and heat… orange plays a brilliant part in the decoration of the universe. It gives life to the harmonies of the dawn, and mingling with the dramatic scene of declining day, it adds its numberless vibrations to the endless novelty of spectacle which the sinking sun presents. ~ Charles Blanc – Art in Ornament and Dress, “Personal Adornment: Colours and Their Expression,” 1875, translated from French
A colour, no doubt, is a trifle in itself, and only has its full value when it is in contrast or harmony with other colours…. each colour has an expression and a character peculiar to itself, and each is enlivened as it approaches its lightest shade by its mixture with white, just as it is saddened and perishes as it approaches its darkest shade by its mixture with black. ~ Auguste Alexandre Philippe Charles Blanc – (1813–1882), Art in Ornament and Dress / L’Art dans la Parure et dans le VĂŞtement, “Personal Adornment: Colours and Their Expression,” 1875, translated from French
A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic. ~ Bill Watterson
[V]iolet… inclines to purple, and so seems to conceal under an ashy blue the pride and passion of red. ~ Charles Blanc – Art in Ornament and Dress, “Personal Adornment: Colours and Their Expression,” 1875, translated from French
[T]he enemies of grey… are fond of bringing forward the argument that colours suffer in grey weather, and that strong sunlight is necessary to all the hues of heaven and earth…. It is true that sun is needed to burnish and bring into bloom the tertiary and dubious colours; the colour of peat, pea-soup, Impressionist sketches, brown velvet coats, olives, grey and blue slates, the complexions of vegetarians, the tints of volcanic rock, chocolate, cocoa, mud, soot, slime, old boots; the delicate shades of these do need the sunlight to bring out the faint beauty that often clings to them.
But… if you choke your garden with poppies and geraniums, if you paint your house sky-blue and scarlet, if you wear, let us say, a golden top-hat and a crimson frock-coat, you will not only be visible on the greyest day, but you will notice that your costume and environment produce a certain singular effect…. rich colours actually look more luminous on a grey day, because they are seen against a sombre background and seem to be burning with a lustre of their own. ~ G.K. Chesterton – Alarms and Discursions, “The Glory of Grey”
[T]he colored pencil. The day we received our first full box of assorted colors we felt grown-up, the passage from baby status to childhood was complete. The broken wax crayon stubbles were immediately thrown out to make way for the more elegant and “mature” pencils. ~ Bernard AimĂ© Poulin – (b.1945), The Complete Colored Pencil Book, 2011