33 Great Quotes On The Color Yellow
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“Orange is an underrated color, it’s the second most underrated color after yellow.”
– Michel Gondry
“Yellow usually means it’s not that serious.”
– Bobby Unser
“Whenever I drive under a yellow light, I always kiss my finger and tap it on the roof of the car.”
– Jared Padalecki
“I have these new policies toward my life, like ‘I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.'”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
“The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.”
– Jim Hightower
“Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.”
– Jerome Cady
“Yellow wakes me up in the morning. Yellow gets me on the bike every day. Yellow has taught me the true meaning of sacrifice. Yellow makes me suffer. Yellow is the reason I’m here.”
– Lance Armstrong
“Yellow is not an in-between color, you’re either all in or you’re not.”
– Mobolaji Dawodu
“Watch out where the Huskies go
And don’t you eat that yellow snow.”
– Frank Zappa
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”
-Pablo Picasso
“Try to forget what objects you have before you – a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, ‘Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,’ and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.”
– Claude Monet
“If you take blue paint and yellow paint and you mix them, you get green paint. But if you take blue light and yellow light and mix them, you get white light. This is a shock to most people.”
– James Turrell
“Blue is the only color which maintains its own character in all its tones it will always stay blue; whereas yellow is blackened in its shades, and fades away when lightened; red when darkened becomes brown, and diluted with white is no longer red, but another color – pink.”
– Raoul Dufy
“White is too brilliant to be seen, so yellow is its filter, its costume, revealing that pure light has not only brightness but emotional resonance and depth.”
– Richard Grossinger
“How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.”
– Vincent Van Gogh
“We find from experience that yellow excites a warm and agreeable impression…. The eye is gladdened, the heart expanded and cheered, a glow seems at once to breathe toward us.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“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.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.”
– Eugene Delacroix
“I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we’re sad, and being yellow when we’re cowards, and when we’re mad, we’re red.”
– Dolly Parton
“Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the color which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.”
– Franz Marc
“The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble.”
– Wassily Kandinsky
“A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so yellow has shades, which can be expressed by various instruments.”
– Wassily Kandinsky
“When I think of flavors, I think color, so lemon should be yellow and orange is orange.”
– Dylan Lauren
“The colors red, blue and green are real. The color yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.”
Tom Stoppard
“Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.”
– Alexander Theroux
“There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.”
– Jorge Luis Borges
“All seems infected that th’ infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.”
– Alexander Pope
“Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold.”
– Aristotle
“The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.”
– L. Frank Baum
“The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.”
– Randall Jarrell
“Golden is a surface color.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.”
– Edmund Burke
“It’s no fun to be yellow. Maybe I’m not all yellow. I don’t know. I think maybe I’m just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn’t give much of a damn if they lose their gloves. One of my troubles is, I never care too much when I lose something – it used to drive mother crazy when I was a kid. Some guys spend days looking for something they’ve lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I’d care too much. Maybe that’s why I’m partly yellow. It’s no excuse, though. It really isn’t. What you should be is not yellow at all.”
― J.D. Salinger
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