33 Great Quotes On The Color Blue
Enjoy this collection of quotes on the color blue.
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“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.”
– Neil Armstrong
“Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I’m on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding – yet beautiful – Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.”
– Buzz Aldrin
“The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience….. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”
– Carl Sagan
“To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold – brothers who know now they are truly brothers.”
– Archibald MacLeish
“No water, no life. No blue, no green.”
– Sylvia Earle
“Blue that will always be there as it is now after all man’s destruction is finished.”
– Georgia O’Keeffe
“The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.”
– John Ruskin
“In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.”
– James Turrell
“Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. They’re all magic.”
— Bryan Batt
“Blue is the only color which maintains its own character in all its tones. It will always stay blue.” – Raoul Dufy.
“Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.”
– Franz Marc
“There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every colour holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus. To a person who has no art in him, colours are colours, tones tones…and that is all. All their consequences for the human spirit, which range between heaven to hell, just go unnoticed.”
– Emil Nolde
“The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural… The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.”
– Wassily Kandinsky
“Almost without exception, blue refers to the domain of abstraction and immateriality.”
– Wassily Kandinsky
“I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white; beside me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity.”
– Kazimir Malevich
““Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not … All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.”
– Yves Klein
“At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.”
– Yves Klein
“Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions.”
– Yves Klein
“Blue is, therefore, most suitable as the color of interior life.”
– William H. Gass
“A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood pressure.”
– Henri Matisse
“If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.”
– Paul Gauguin
“If you’re feeling blue try painting yourself a different color.”
– Hannah Cheatem
“I’m trying to get people to see that we are our brother’s keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.”
– B. B. King
“Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.”
– B. B. King
“Blue is the closest color to truth.”
– Steven Tyler
“Something of God… flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.”
– C. S. Lewis
“…one interior life in which all beings live with God, themselves are God, existing in the mighty whole, indistinguishable as the cloudless east is from the cloudless west, when all the hemisphere is one cerulean blue.”
– William Wordsworth
“The color blue is no less beautiful because it exists alongside the other colors of a rainbow, and blueness itself depends upon the existence of the other colors, for if there were no color but blue, we would never be able to see it.”
– Ken Wilber
“It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.”
– Carl Sagan
“If there is nothing new on the earth, still the traveler always has a resource in the skies. They are constantly turning a new page to view. The wind sets the types on this blue ground, and the inquiring may always read a new truth there.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you. And I think to myself what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue and clouds of white. The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night. And I think to myself what a wonderful world.”
– Louis Armstrong
“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”
– Nhat Hanh
“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.”
– Eleonora Duse
“I never get tired of the blue sky.”
– Vincent Van Gogh
“We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways: the ocean, lapis lazuli, the sky, someone’s eyes. Our definitions are as different as we are ourselves.”
– Sarah Dessen
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