Over the years I've collected an assortment of inspirational quotes so I thought I would share with you just a few of my favorites about color. Which one is your favorite?
Color is but a sensation and has no existence outside the nervous system of living beings. Nicholas Ogden Rood, American Physicist, 1831-1902
“Who told you that one paints with colors? One makes use of colors, but one paints with emotions.” Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, French Rococo Era Painter, 1699-1779
“If we were to imagine an orange on the blue side or green on the red side or violet on the yellow side, it would give us the same impression as a north wind coming from the southwest.” Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher, 1889-1951
“The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble…” Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born French Expressionist Painter, 1866-1944
'Yes,' I answered you last night; / 'No,' this morning, sir, I say. / Colours seen by candle-light / Will not look the same by day.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English Poet, 1806-1861
“For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.” Leonardo da Vinci, Italian High Renaissance Painter and Inventor, 1452-1519
"I know I can not paint a flower. I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in terms of paint color I can convey to you my experience of the flower or the experience that makes the flower of significance to me at that particular time." Georgia O'Keeffe, American Painter, 1887-1986
“Almost all words do have color and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too." Gladys Taber, American Author, 1899-1980
“Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.” Louise Nevelson, Russian-born American Abstract Expressionist Sculptor, 1899-1988
