More Color Quotes From Painters

“The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colors which at every succeeding moment it presents to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts.”  James Edward Allen

“The range in brightness from the purple glow [of the sunset] to the dark sky above is too great for most films, and naturally it is beyond the range of printed pictures.”  James Elkins 

“There is an undeniable virtue to a true black; allowing the brain to be mesmerized and pulling the pupils deep into that unfound but sensed abyss.”  Jamie Lavin

“Colour confines the totality of elemental work.”  Jan Zawadzki 

“My favorite color to glaze with is yellow. It always glows just like stained glass lit up by the sun.”  Jane Jones

“Trying to brighten a dull color is nearly impossible... I start with a color that is too intense so I can calm it as needed.”  Jane Jones 

“Better gray than garishness.”  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

“There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact.”  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

“Who told you that one paints with colors? One makes use of colors, but one paints with emotions.” Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

 “Two colours are enough, just blue and white – more might be a nightmare."  Jennifer Kostuik

“This may sound a bit simple, but the rainbow was my teaching source about mixing color.”  Jim Pescott

“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.”  Joan Miro   

“Little by little, I've reached the stage of using only a small number of forms and colors. It's not the first time that painting has been done with a very narrow range of colors. The frescoes of the tenth century are painted like this. For me, they are magnificent things.”  Joan Miro 

“Color can overwhelm... One must understand that when it comes to color, 'less' is often 'more' – lesson taught us by the masters but ignored by many artists.”  Joe Singer

“Colours are light's suffering and joy.”  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Colours are the deeds of light, its deeds and sufferings."  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“He who wishes to become a master of color must see, feel, and experience each individual color in its endless combinations with all other colors.”  Johannes Itten 

“Only those who love color are admitted to its beauty and immanent presence. It affords utility to all, but unveils its deeper mysteries only to its devotees.”  Johannes Itten

“Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red, white, and blue all over."  John F. Carlson

“I mix them with my brains, sir.”  John Opie 

“Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.”  John Ruskin

“Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.” John Ruskin

“The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly altogether. But the man who has only studied its roundness may not see its purples and grays, and if he does not will never get it to look like a peach; so that great power over color is always a sign of large general art-intellect.”  John Ruskin

“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.”  John Ruskin