33 Colorful Quotes and Pictures

Here’s something you might not know about me: I love bright colors (you didn’t notice?!). Ages ago when I worked in an office, an employee from another department who was looking for me described me as “the woman with the bright colors.”

 

Enjoy my colorful quote images!

“Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8 color boxes, but what you’re really looking for are the 64 color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64 color box, though I’ve got a few missing. It’s okay though, because I’ve got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the 8 color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation. So when I meet someone who’s an 8 color type… I’m like, hey girl, Magenta! and she’s like, oh, you mean purple! and she goes off on her purple thing, and I’m like, no I want Magenta!” ~John Mayer

It’s all in the shades, tints, and combos!

“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” ~Marcus Aurelius

Choose your thoughts wisely!

“Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there’s shadow – no, not just shadow, but fullness. You’ve got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that’s real.” ~Amy Grant

Dark days make the brighter ones shine!

Life is like a rainbow. You need both rain and sun to make its colors appear. ~Unknown

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

I’m intrigued by this background image I found on Pixabay! It has such depth. I swear the colors dance!

“I prefer living in color.” ~David Hockney

Me too!

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

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

Find and share your uniqueness!

“With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.” ~Henri Matisse

“I have led a pretty colorful life.” ~Corey Feldman

Sounds good to me!

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.” ~Georgia O’Keeffe

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

Can you hear it?

“Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.” ~Earl Butz

What do ya think – are mine?

“The world is my canvas and I create my reality.” ~Unknown

I just love this one! Create the reality you want.

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

Spoken with childlike simplicity.

“Be uniquely you. Stand out. Shine. Be colorful. The world needs your prismatic soul!” ~Amy Leigh Mercree

“Life is about using the whole box of crayons.” ~RuPaul

 

“To me, beauty and makeup and color is like the finishing touch on everything.” ~Marc Jacobs

This colorful guy agrees!

“You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.” ~Gary Oldman

“The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.” ~Henry S. Haskins

Start with what you have. Just start.

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

“Be uniquely you. Stand out. Shine. Be colorful. The world needs your prismatic soul!” ~Amy Leigh Mercree

“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Color possesses me. I don’t have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.” ~Paul Klee

“Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.” ~Allen Klein

 

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

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” ~Rabindranath Tagore

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

This means yours and mine, my friend! And yes, we are ending with colorful pastels

 

Stay colorful, friends! I hope you enjoyed these quotes on colors and happiness.