I just want to know one thing.
What is color?
-Pablo Picasso

What is color? Color is light,
and light is the manifestation of creation.
-Rebecca Clark

Colors are the smiles of nature.
-Leigh Hunt

Color comes from plucking a rainbow.
-Philip Ball

We reserve the right to marvel at color's occurences and meanings,
to admire, and, if possible, to uncover color's secrets.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the right tonality

I never met a color I didn't like.

-Iris Apfel

We are always intoxicated with color,
with words that speak of color,
and with the sun that makes colors live.
-Andre Derain

Color is one of the great things in the world
that make life worth living to me.
-Georgia O'Keeffe

Color is my day-long obsession,
joy and torment.
-Claude Monet

Man needs color to live;
it's just a necessary an element as fire and water.
-Fernand Leger

The whole world as we experience visually,
comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
-Hans Hofmanm

Why do two colors
put next to each other, sing?
-Pablo Picasso

I have always wanted 
my colors to sing.
-Paul Delvaux

Color is vibration like music;
everything is vibration.
-Marc Chagall

In color,
there is harmony, melody and counterpoint.
-Charles Baudelaire

...sounds cloak themselves in colors
and colors contain music.
-Charles Baudelaire

Every day
has its own individuality of color.
-Charles Hawthorne

Among the several kinds of beauty,
the eye takes most delight in colors.
-Joseph Addison

Color!
What a deep and mysterious language,
the language of dreams.
-Paul Gaugin

the color is given
lots of names
but yearns for more
-John Sandbach

Sometimes I imagine colors
as if they were living ideas,
being of pure reason
with which to communicate.
-Paul Cezanne

Color provokes a psychic vibration.
-Wassily Kandinsky

Colors express
the main psychic functions of man.
-Carl Jung

It seems that each of us
has "three people"
inside him or her.
The first simply desires to love (red),
the second seeks encounters (yellow),
and the third returns to itself (blue).
-Bruno and Louise Huber

Color is a matter of taste
and of sensitivity.
-Edouard Manet

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

The purest and most thoughtful minds
are those that love colour the most.
-John Ruskin

In nature, light creates color.
In the picture, color creates light.
-Hans Hofmann

Generally speaking, color is a power
which directly influences the soul.
Color is the keyboard,
the eyes are the hammers,
the soul is the piano
with many strings.
The artist is the hand which plays,
touching one key or another
to cause vibrations in the soul.
It is therefore evident that colour harmony
must rest only on a corresponding vibration
in the human soul.
-Wassily Kandinsky

Color, in my opinion,
behaves like man
in two distinct ways:
first in self-realization
and then in realization
of relationships with others.
-Josef Albers

Some colors reconcile themselves to one anther,
others just clash.
-Edvard Munch

Colors must fit together
as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
-Hans Hofmann

All colors are friends of their neighbors
and lovers of their opposites.
-Marc Chagall

The chief function of color
should be to serve as expression.
-Henri Matisse

A colourist makes his presence known
even in a simple charcoal drawing.
-Henri Matisse

Seek the strongest color effect possible.
-Henri Mastisse

It is wonderful how much
depends upon the relations
of black and white...
a black and white,
if properly balanced,
suggest colour.
-Winslow Homer

Color is born of the interpenetration
of light and dark.
-Sam Francis

Color and light must be entirely melted into one 
and felt as such -
and light must be expressed as it is felt as color.
-Morgan Russell

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning
and unallied with definite form,
can speak to the soul
in a thousand different ways.
-Oscar Wilde

I found I could say things
with color and shapes
that I could not say
in any other way -
things I had no words for.
-Georgia O'Keeffe

Colors speak all languages.
-Joseph Addison

Colors, like features,
follow the changes of emotions.
-Pablo Picasso

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

Color has taken possession of me;
I no longer chase after it -
I know that it has hold of me forever...
Color and I are one.

I am a painter.

-Paul Klee

And in the end, 
the study of color 
again is the study of ourselves.
-Josef Albers

What is color?...
Color is nothing less than
the substance of the soul.
-Rebecca Clark

All colors are but vibrations of one string,
the string of consciousness,
and they blend into the perfect understanding,
which is the white light.
-N. Sri Ram

"Someday we shall control the full orchestra."
(speaking about color to his students)
-James McNeill Whistler