Complementary Color Quotes & Sayings

I am always in the hope to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors - colors which marry each other ... complement each other as a man and a woman do. — Vincent Van Gogh

An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him. — Charles E. Burchfield

Colors close together on the color wheel are analogous and will make a calm room. Colors that are farther apart are complementary and add drama. — David Bromstad

There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating in sparks, dream patterns, figures whimsical and figures grotesque, shifting and clad in complementary colors, to appease the indignant cups and rods of the retina. — Gelett Burgess

To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones ... — Vincent Van Gogh

I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation — Henri Matisse

What I most cherish is the observation of the movement of colors. Only in this have I found the laws of those simultaneous and complementary color contrasts that nourish the actual rhythm of my vision. In this I find the actual essence, an essence which is not born out of an a priori system or theory. — August Macke