When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky. ~ Henri Matisse

The laws of color are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most. ~ John Ruskin

Green is the fresh emblem of well founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green it can rest. ~ Mary Webb

Yellow is capable of charming God. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors is black. ~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Art without color would lose much of its purpose. ~ Andrew Loomis

Some of us come on earth seeing--some of us come on earth seeing color. ~ Louise Nevelson

Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down. ~ Paul Cézanne

The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice. ~ Henri Matisse

Color and I are one. I am a painter. ~ Paul Klee

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