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Quotations about the Color Yellow
Welcome to my page of quotations about yellow — the color of sunshine, lemons, bees, springtime flowers, so many beautiful things!
Just now we are having a glorious strong heat, with no wind, just what I want. There is a sun, a light that for want of a better word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is! ~Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890)
In literature, indeed, yellow has long been the color of romance. ~“The Yellow Boom,” in Current Literature, February 1895
Colors of the summer sun illuminate the meadow. Gold, the massed gold of hawkweed; the burnished gold of black-eyed Susans; the delicate, demure gold of stargrass, cousin of the daffodil; and the sun's very rays captured by the field's wild sunflowers. ~Hal Borland, Seasons, 1973
Yellow is the eldest son of light. ~Charles Blanc, Art in Ornament and Dress, 1875, quotation translated from the French by Steven Schwartzman, 2020, portraitsofwildflowers.wordpress.com [Many thanks to
Although yellow occupies one-twentieth of the spectrum, it is the brightest colour. ~Derek Jarman (1942–1994), "The Perils of Yellow," Chroma: A Book of Colour — June '93, 1994
Nature rarer uses Yellow
Than another Hue –
Saves she all of that for Sunsets
Prodigal of Blue
Spending Scarlet, like a Woman
Yellow she affords
Only scantly and selectly
Like a Lover's Words –
~Emily Dickinson, c.1865
The popular vogue which green has enjoyed is passing. Jaded with over-refinements and super-subtleties, we seem to be harking back to the primary colors of life. The triumph of yellow is imminent. After white, yellow reflects more light than any other color. A few yellow chrysanthemums will make a small room look twice its size, and when the sun comes out upon a yellow wall-paper the whole room seems suddenly to expand, to open like a flower. When it falls upon the pot of yellow chrysanthemums and sets them ablaze, it seems as though one had an angel in the room. ~“The Yellow Boom,” in Current Literature, February 1895
Day shows off the beauty of red and yellow. ~Rumi, translated by Edward Henry Whinfield
Yellow is an extrovert's color. ~Joen Wolfrom, Adventures in Design, 2011
The effect of yellow upon the mind is of a bright, gay, gladdening nature, owing to its likeness to light. ~W. J. & G. A. Audsley, Taste versus Fashionable Colours: A Manual for Ladies on Colour in Dress, 1863
...My brother loves a world of blue,
But yellow is to me
The gayest gold, and waving grain
Is lovelier than a tree...
~George Elliston, "For Difference," Bright World, 1927
When yellow wishes to ingratiate it becomes gold. ~Derek Jarman (1942–1994), "The Perils of Yellow," Chroma: A Book of Colour — June '93, 1994
What is yellow? pears are yellow,
Rich and ripe and mellow.
~Christina G. Rossetti, Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book, 1872
Green has the contract for the greater bulk of the vegetable life of the globe but his is a monotonous business: grass, grass, grass; trees, trees, trees, ad infinitum; whereas yellow leads a roving, versatile life, and is seldom called upon for such repetitive labor. The flowers we love best are yellow, and yellow, too, has its turn with the leaves — in autumn what an artist he shows himself when he "lays his fiery finger" upon them, lighting up the forlorn woodland with splashes of audacious gold! ~“The Yellow Boom,” in Current Literature, February 1895
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