50 Color Quotes That Will Brighten To Your Day

By Stephanie Kirby

Writer, Entrepreneur and Inspirational quote curator

Published November 10, 2023

If you reject living a dull, plain life and instead love the colors of the world, you will love these color quotes!

Color is one of the essential things in the world.

Beauty can change how we view things.

A sunset would just be the end of another day without the beauty of colors to light up the sky, and without color, trees, grass, and flowers would have no beauty to add to our lives.

Color is beautiful, but that is not its only purpose; it also influences our moods and decisions.

Appalachian State University says, “Color plays a vital role in the world in which we live.”

Different colors influence your mood; for example, gray represents sadness and can put us in a sad and gloomy mood, whereas yellow brings happiness.

Take a look at these color quotes to learn more about how colors impact your life.

You will also enjoy our article on color red quotes.

Best Color Quotes

Check out some of the best quotes about adding some color to your life!

1. “It’s ok to show all your colors.” — Luis Guzmán

2. “I call white the most powerful non-color; it’s clean, optimistic, powerful.” — Jason Wu

3. “There’s a reason we don’t see the world in black and white.” — Celerie Kemble

4. “Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.” — Epictetus

5. “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.” — Marcus Aurelius

6. “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way.” — Georgia O’Keeffe

7. “In movies, we tend to make things black and white: you’re either this or you’re that.” — Bill Skarsgard

8. “O beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.” — William Shakespeare

9. “Losing him was blue like I’d never known. Missing him was dark gray, all alone.” — Taylor Swift

10. “If we were to imagine an orange on the blue side or violet on the yellow side, it would give us the same impression as a north wind coming from southwest.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The Beauty of Color Quotes

Don’t be afraid to add some color to your life!

11. “I think we all need to be able to dream in colors.” — Victor J. Glover

12. “Color is a power which directly influences the soul.” — Wassily Kandinsky

13. “I am a believer that color affects people’s moods.” — Lilly Pulitzer

14. “Colors, like features, follow the changes of emotion.” — Pablo Picasso

15. “The sun is up, the sky is blue; It’s beautiful, and so are you.” — John Lennon

16. “If one could only catch that true color of nature—the very thought of it drives me mad.” — Andrew Wyeth

17. “You can’t walk on the yellow brick road without having your red shoes on.” — Jose R. Coronado

18. “Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.” — Paul Gauguin

19. “As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.” — Isaac Newton

20. “In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.” — Jonas Mekas

Memorable Color Quotes

You won’t forget these quotes about how color impacts your life!

21. “I don’t think I will ever get tired of wearing pink.” — Emma Bunton

22. “Blue looks good on the sky” — Keith Urban

23. “Color is the overpowering of black; white the final victory over black.” — Dejan Stojanovic

24. “All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.” — Marc Chagall

25. “Color creates, enhances, changes, reveals and establishes the mood of the painting.” — Kiff Holland

26. “In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.” — Hans Hofmann

27. “But never have I been a blue calm sea. I have always been a storm.” — Stevie Nicks

28. “Pink isn’t just a color. It’s an attitude, too.” — Miley Cyrus

29. “Color Vision Deficiency isn’t the end of the world. It’s just a different view of it.” — Karen Rae Levine

30. “Orange is the color of the sun. It is vital and a good color generally, indicating thoughtfulness and consideration of others.” — Edgar Cayce

Rainbow Color Quotes

Check out these quotes about the beauty of a rainbow!

31. “When I see a rainbow, I know that someone, somewhere, loves me.” — Anthony T. Hincks

32. “Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.” — Mattie Stepanek

33. “When it rains, look for rainbows; when it’s dark, look for stars.” — Oscar Wilde

34. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” — Maya Angelou

35. “You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.” — Charlie Chaplin

36. “To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain.” — Paulo Coelho

37. “Today’s teardrops are tomorrow’s rainbows.” — Ricky Nelson

38. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” — Dolly Parton

39. “Gratitude is the real treasure God wants us to find because it isn’t the pot of gold but the rainbow that colors our world.” — Richelle E. Goodrich

40. “It takes sunshine and rain to make a rainbow. There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.” — Roy T. Bennett

Cheerful Color Quotes

When you are sad, remember that colors were invented to brighten our lives!

41. “Colors are the smiles of nature.” — Leigh Hunt

42. “Yellow usually means it’s not that serious.” — Bobby Unser

43. “As I get older, I find that wearing bright colors cheers me up.” — Tadashi Shoji

44. “Color is my day-long obsession, joy, and torment.” — Claude Monet

45. “Yellow is my favorite summer color – it makes me feel like a sunflower.” — Bria Vinaite

46. “If everyone would look for that uniqueness, then we would have a very colorful world.” — Michael Schenker

47. “You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.” — Herbie Hancock

48. “You can be zany and funny, or you can do something that really has some depth to it and serious, so there’s many different colors to paint with.” — Jim Carrey

49. “Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak.” — Allen Klein

50. “Give a kid a box of Crayons & watch him color the world happy. Tell him where to fill which color and watch him dislike everything colorful.” — Nitya Prakash

51. “The head of all flower heads is one flower; the sunflower in the sky, that gives the others vivid color stemming from the inside.” ― Curtis Tyrone Jones

52. “Don’t commit color sabotage by wearing colors that attack and fight against your natural coloring.” ― Cindy Ann Peterson

53. “I am every color of the spectrum.” ― Steven Magee

54. “Sometimes I felt like a hueman kaleidoscope, a walking collection of shattered glass with bits of crazy color churning inside me.” ― Eleyne-Mari Sharp

55. “The keys to dressing is understanding your personal colors, body shape and proportions.” ― Cindy Ann Peterson

56. “The mixture of pain and anger, from past experiences, are the most sincere colors to create new horizons on my canvas.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

57. “Colour expresses something in itself.” ― Vincent Van Gogh

58. “Stress and striving always color your art in unintended ways.” ― Allen Arnold

59. “Soul does not demand colors, it needs presence.” ― Mahrukh

60. “Sometimes all colors of happiness fades away, sometimes sadness finds it’s own colors.” ― Crestless Wave