Colour Can Be
- Feb 6, 2024
- 3 min read
Hue
Joy
Life
Light
A force
A language
A keyboard
A human need
A type of love
Shades and tints
An act of reason
Nature gone wild
A child of light
An infinite thing
A renewer of life
Music to the deaf
The fruit of life
An emotion evoker
An enormous delight
The ultimate in art
A content connector
An attribute of form
The smiles of nature
The touch of the eye
Things we experience
Vibration like music
The flesh of drawing
Astonishingly lovely
The smiles of nature
The laughs of nature
The skin of the world
A very personal thing
A very critical thing
A language, like music
Intrinsically personal
The essence of painting
An organising principle
The language of painting
Like food for the spirit
A major element in scale
Electromagnetic radiation
Light's suffering and joy
The overpowering of black
The language of the poets
What enthusiasm is in life
What gives jewels their worth
A means of creating intervals
Something we see with our eyes
Mood, temperature and structure
Beautiful when it’s significant
A matter of taste and sensitivity
The deeds and sufferings of light
The heart and passion of painting
Establisher of form and structure
The emotional part of a structure
A creative element, not a trimming
Expressions on the surface of depth
A gift of God to the sighted person
A raw material indispensable to life
Surface skin that fits over the form
What turns a drawing into a painting
A day-long obsession, joy and torment
As strong as the impression it creates
Only beautiful when it means something
What keeps a painting alive and moving
A power which directly influences the soul
A thing that sings when next to another one
The most relative means of artistic expression
The place where our brain and the universe meet
Crucial in painting, but very hard to talk about
One of the strongest elements of beauty in nature
About atmosphere and emotion and the feel of a place
A powerful physical, biological, and psychological force
The friend of its neighbours and the lover of its opposite
Sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form
The purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality
Sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state
One of the great things in the world that makes life worth living
What the eye takes most delight in, in the recognition of beauty
A mystery to us - we can only apprehend it intuitively in flowers
A way the eye and the brain work together to define the external world
Like music - the palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form
Like blood circulating through a work of art, with all its variety and liveliness
To form what verse is to prose - a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought
Radiant energies that affect us positively or negatively, whether we are aware of it or not
A trifle in itself, and only has its full value when it is in contrast or harmony with other colours
A quality that changes as it interacts with other colours, changes because of the light falling upon it, and changes as it becomes larger in size
Especially connected with the blossoming of the earth, and with its fruits, and also with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day