Color

(305 votes)   There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

Vincent Van Gogh
1853-1890, Dutch Painter

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(114 votes)   Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity.

Rainer Maria Rilke
1875-1926, German Poet

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(82 votes)   White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(81 votes)   Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(79 votes)   Blueness doth express trueness.

Ben Jonson
1573-1637, British Dramatist, Poet

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(78 votes)   Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.

Federico Garcia Lorca
1898-1936, Spanish Poet, Dramatist, Musician and Artist

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(75 votes)   He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(73 votes)   Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.

Claude Monet

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(66 votes)   Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist

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