Quotes about Colors

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Among these several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors. - Joseph Addison quote.
Among these several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.
Colors speak all languages. - Joseph Addison quote.
Colors speak all languages.
Color is to the eye what music is to the ear.
Color rings the doorbell of the human mind and emotion and then leaves.
Colors seen by candle-light
Will not look the same by day. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote.
Colors seen by candle-light
Will not look the same by day.
Every gaudy color
Is a bit of truth.
Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.

film

Colors are the smiles of nature.  When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs, as in the flowers. - Leigh Hunt quote.
Colors are the smiles of nature.  When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs, as in the flowers.

flowers

I found that I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way—things that I had no words for. - Georgia O’Keefe quote.
I found that I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way—things that I had no words for.
Georgia O’Keefe Georgia O’Keefe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966
The meaning of a word—to me—is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words. - Georgia O’Keefe quote.
The meaning of a word—to me—is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words.
The fact is, that, of all God's gifts to the sight of man, color is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. - John Ruskin quote.
The fact is, that, of all God's gifts to the sight of man, color is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. - Oscar Wilde quote.
Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
While scorned on a few snooty palettes, black is the loyal friends that helps make other colors look more brilliant than they are.  Wise artists do not say derogatory things about black.
Black is the queen of colors. - Auguste Rodin quote.
Black is the queen of colors.
Mauve?  Mauve is just pink trying to be purple. - James Abbott McNeill Whistler quote.
Mauve?  Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.
Colour is an intense experience on its own.