Colour Quotes

"I love dishes that feature the various shades of a single colour, making you stop to check what's in there."

"My favourite colours have always been '60s Miami-inspired gold and peach - feminine but not too girlie."

“I don't use blue. I don't like it. It bugs me out. I hate it.”

“Colour in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.”

Antoni Gaudí

“If one says "Red" and there are 50 people listening, it can be expected that there will be 50 reds in their minds.”

Josef Albers

“Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.”

Wassily Kandinsky

“He who wishes to become a master of colour must see, feel, and experience each individual colour in its many endless combinations with all other colours.”

Johannes Itten

“In visual perception a colour is almost never seen as it really is.”

Josef Albers

“I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say any other way, things I had no words for.”

Georgia O'Keeffe

“Light is therefore colour.”

J. M. W. Turner

“I try to apply colours like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.”

Joan Miró

“Colour has taken possession of me.”

Paul Klee

“The world speaks to me in colours, my soul answers in music.”

“Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.”

Claude Monet

“Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings.”

Wassily Kandinsky