Colors Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Colors.
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“Color Field”
“I mix them with my brains, sir.”
“when the sun falls
and we are all one color”
“[Color effects] are never absolute but are relative to the total situation...”
“This pencil take (she said), whose colours clear
Richly paint the vernal year:”
“[T]hings seen through the mist are similar in colour to those which are at a distance...”
“The colour of the object illuminated partakes of the colour of that which illuminates it.”
“There are many arguments to prove that darkness is not a colour, but merely privation of light...”
“[I]n these three Experiments... the Colour of Homogeneal Light was never changed by the Refraction.”
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”
“Colour has a logic as exact as that of form. One must not give up before capturing that first impression.”
“[T]he Sun's Light is an Heterogeneous mixture of Rays, some of which are constantly more Refrangible then others...”
“The fellow mixes blood with his colors.”
“[L]ight and darkness, brightness and obscurity, or... light and its absence, are necessary to the production of colour.”
“[T]he increase in amount of color... visually reduces distance. ...[I]t often produces nearness -- meaning intimacy -- and respect.”
“With these three or six colours, which may be conveniently included in a circle, the elementary doctrine of colours is alone concerned.”
“Lights which differ in Colour, differ also in Degrees of Refrangibility.”
“Thus all hues represent a threefold mixture of light, a translucent medium (e.g. water or air), and underlying colours from which the light is reflected.”