quotations about the color yellow
Yellow is the perceived color of sunshine. It is associated with joy, happiness, intellect, and energy.
MARCIA MOSES
Understanding Color
In the world of safe hues, like black, red and white, yellow shouts: "Look at me. I'm happy!"
JOY SEWING
"Why a yellow dress is more than a yellow dress", Chron, January 20, 2016
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
PABLO PICASSO
attributed, Managing Creativity
Yellow is my favorite, but what is yellow? Handmaiden to white, it is a slight tarnish of pure light. Take away a bit of whites absolute luminosity, and what remains is yellow -- sunlike, golden as a crown, buttercups in a field, marsh marigolds, a finch's wing, a plastic flute.
RICHARD GROSSINGER
The Bardo of Waking Life
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
The Bardo of Waking Life
All I feel is celestial desire
A distant joy is dancing all around me
All I see is yellow in the spring air
How beautifully the color worked itself in
CITIZEN
"Yellow Love"
Yellow is the color of the east, childhood, and morning.
JEFFREY D. ANDERSON
Arapaho Women's Quillwork: Motion, Life, and Creativity
Yellow is the warmest and most ardent of colors, like the sun at its zenith, the Golden Light, the path of communication between men and gods. Of divine essence, golden yellow on Earth is characteristic of the powers of princes, kings, and emperors, who thereby proclaim the divine origin of their power.
JEAN-PHILIPPE LENCLOS & DOMINIQUE LENCLOS
Colors of the World: The Geography of Color
I used to believe that as a dark-skinned girl I couldn't wear yellow. Growing up I felt like I was too dark -- and as I got older I started to think I was too large to wear such a bright color. It always felt like it wasn't appropriate for me to wear. Then I realized how great it looks on darker skin tones. It wasn't my skin tone or my curves preventing me from wearing the bright hue -- I was just afraid to shine.
MALIA ANDERSON
"A Reminder That Yellow Looks Absolutely Amazing On Curvy Black Women", Essence, March 9, 2017
Yellow is not an in-between color, you're either all in or you're not.
MOBOLAJI DAWODU
"Yellow Is the Color of the Season and This Is How to Wear It", GQ, February 23, 2017
Yellow is a small wheel of cheddar cheese,
Permeating a musty odor out of the bakers shop
Yellow is a thousand paper cranes,
Floating down a slow, mellow river
Yellow is the round circle of moon,
The light that stays through the coldest night.
ANISHA DATTA
Confessions of a Part-Time Optimist: a Collection of Poems
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
RANDALL JARRELL
A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables
yellow is the colour which is closest to light. We associate the rays of the sun and the stars with it. It is the radiance of the spirit.
UELI SEILER-HUGOVA
Colour: Seeing, Experiencing, Understanding
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
Goethe's Theory of Colours
We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
THE BEATLES
"Yellow Submarine"
The yellow glistens.
It glistens with various yellows,
Citrons, oranges and greens
Flowering over the skin.
WALLACE STEVENS
"Study of Two Pears", The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD
attributed, ROY G. BIV: An Exceedingly Surprising Book About Color
If the Irish spring has a colour, then surely it is yellow. Just think of daffodils. Or the egg-yolk yellow celandines and dandelions pushing their way through the ground. Or the pale lemon flowers of our native primrose, or the fluffy, sweetly-scented blooms of the Mimosa trees adding a flash of exotic colour to sheltered urban gardens at this time of year. Even the hazel's dangling catkins are a pale lemon-yellow, courtesy of the pollen that covers them like a fine dust.
FIONNUALA FALLON
"Yellow shouts spring in the garden", The Irish Times, March 11, 2017
The yellow is unsteady. The more I try to capture what it's like now, the less steady it seems. But it's still there, and yellow all right. Perhaps I am trying too hard, and chasing the yellow away.
SUSAN BLACKMORE
Zen and the Art of Consciousness
Yellow is the brightest and lightest of all colors, and this brilliance is its most noticeable characteristic, which accounts for the way it is used practically and thought of symbolically.
MICHAEL FREEMAN
Mastering Color Digital Photography