[Number 1 among 15 recommendations to achieve “split second serenity”. Others included hanging a crystal from your rear-view mirror, challenging your brain by wearing your watch on the opposite wrist, taking a different route to work, and stirring your coffee backwards.]
-Anon., ""Fitness" magazine"
It can be a fascinating game, noticing how any person with vitality and vigor will have a little splash of red in a costume, in a room, or in a garden...
-Edgar Cayce
"Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory of colour. This is what a picture should give us ... an abyss in which the eye is lost, a secret germination, a coloured state of grace ... loose conciousness. Descend with the painter into the dim tangled roots of things, and rise again from them in colours, be steeped in the light of them."
-Paul Cézanne
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
-Marc Chagall
In our lives there is a simple colour, as on an artists palatte, which provides the meaning of life and art. it is the colour of love.
-Marc Chagall, "Newsweek", April 8, 1985
It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression. With yellow the eye rejoices, the heart expands, the spirit is cheered and we immediately feel warmed. Many people feel an inclination to laugh when looking through a yellow glass.
-Johann von Goethe, Theory of Colors, 1840
Sometimes the gods have no taste at all. They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue hues that any professional artist would dismiss as the work of some enthsiastic amateur who'd never looked at a real sunset. This was one of those sunrises. It was the kind of sunrise a man looks at and says, 'No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink.'
Nevertheless, it was beautiful.
-Terry Pratchett, The Thief of Time, 2001
Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
-Oscar Wilde
Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not [color] but the structure that constitutes its essence.
-Johann Joachim Winckelmann.