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Color Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “The Sky was red, but not warm red of a sunset. This was an angry, glowering red, the colour of an infected wound.”

Neil Gaiman

Sky, Color, Imagery, Emotion, Atmosphere

2. “The Monk currently believed that the valley and everything in the valley and around it, including the Monk itself and the Monk's horse, was a uniform shade of pale pink.”

Douglas Adams

Perception, Belief, Color, Humor, Absurdity

3. “This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Storytelling, Imagery, Color, Nature, Perspective

4. “With a smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.”

John Milton

Love, Beauty, Divinity, Color, Emotion

5. “I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.”

Charles Baudelaire

Nature And Imagination, Colored Fields, Artistic Critique, Nature, Imagination, Color

6. “Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.”

Sylvia Plath

Life Appreciation, Daily Joys, Vibrant Living, Life, Joy, Color

7. “God is liberal of color; so should man be.”

Herman Melville

Divine Color, Liberal Spirit, Human Equality, God, Color, Equality

8. “Never neglect the way you arrange things visually. Factors like color, for example, have enormous symbolic resonance.”

Robert Greene

Visual Symbolism, Color Impact, Arrangement Importance, Symbolism, Color, Arrangement

9. “I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.”

Albert Camus

Sky And Vision, Childhood Imagery, Colorful Reflection, Sky, Vision, Color

10. “She is not so afraid at night because she is the color of it.”

Toni Morrison

Fear, Identity, Night, Color, Courage, Strength

11. “I imposed black; it’s still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around.”

Coco Chanel

Black Fashion, Timeless Elegance, Color Impact, Fashion, Elegance, Color

12. “When I find a colour darker than black, I’ll wear it. But until then, I’m wearing black!”

Coco Chanel

Bold Fashion, Timeless Black, Color Style, Fashion, Style, Color

13. “Once a woman told me that colored flowers would seem more bright if you added a few white flowers to give the colors definition. Every petal of blue lupin is edged with white, so that a field of lupins is more blue than you can imagine.”

John Steinbeck

Flowers, Beauty, Nature, Color, Perception, Life

14. “Each individual has their own unique color, which shines faintly around the contours of their body. Like a halo. Or a backlight. I’m able to see those colors clearly.”

Haruki Murakami

Individuality, Perception, Identity, Unique, Color, Aura

15. “It’s exactly my sense of existing – a fragment, a wisp of color.”

Vladimir Nabokov

Wisp Fragment, Existence Color, Subtle Life, Fragment, Color, Life

16. “A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.”

Emily Dickinson

Color, Nature, Silence, Emotion, Solitude, Beauty

17. “I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”

Vincent Van Gogh

Night, Color, Life, Nature, Contrast

18. “I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.”

Vincent Van Gogh

Color, Art, Expression, Power, Creativity

19. “Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.”

Vincent Van Gogh

Color, Art, Enthusiasm, Life, Energy

20. “I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil.”

Vincent Van Gogh

Color, Nature, Observation, Detail, Art

21. “Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make an arbitrary use of color to express myself more forcefully.”

Vincent Van Gogh

Expression, Color, Art, Creativity, Freedom

22. “For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that.”

Isaac Newton

Light, Color, Physics, Perception, Science, Rays