Colours are wonderful things aren't they

[sandrajo]

It's interesting to note what colors mean to us in totality. Would you agree with these meanings for these colours?

Red
Excitement, energy, passion, desire, speed, strength, power, heat, love, aggression, danger, fire, blood, war, violence, aggression, all things intense and passionate.

Yellow
Joy, happiness, optimism, idealism, imagination, hope, sunshine, summer, gold, philosophy, dishonesty, cowardice, betrayal, jealousy, covetousness, deceit, illness, hazard.

Blue
Peace, tranquility, calm, stability, harmony, unity, trust, truth, confidence, conservatism, security, cleanliness, order, loyalty, sky, water, cold, technology, depression, appetite suppressant.

Orange
Energy, balance, warmth, enthusiasm, vibrant, expansive, flamboyant, demanding of attention.

Green
Nature, environment, healthy, good luck, renewal, youth, vigor, spring, generosity, fertility, jealousy, inexperience, envy, misfortune.

Purple
Royalty, spirituality, nobility, spirituality, ceremony, mysterious, transformation, wisdom, enlightenment, cruelty, arrogance, mourning.

Gray
Security, reliability, intelligence, staid, modesty, dignity, maturity, solid, conservative, practical, old age, sadness, boring.

Brown
Earth, hearth, home, outdoors, reliability, comfort, endurance, stability, simplicity, and comfort.

White
Reverence, purity, simplicity, cleanliness, peace, humility, precision, innocence, youth, birth, winter, snow, good, sterility, marriage (Western cultures), death (Eastern cultures), cold, clinical, sterile.

[4getmenot]

is that how you see redcrx?

[4getmenot]

I agree with most apart from Brown, thats just poo-ey

[~spaced~]

i disagree with Green. I studied art, fine art and then design, so I have some degree of knowledge on colours (sad I know).

Green is a calming and soothing colour, that is why alot lof hospital and doctors waiting rooms are Green.

Blue is considered cold. A blue room will make you feel cold and uncomfortabe which contradicts what you have placed under blue. Blue rather than Purple is considered a royal and rich (in monetary terms) due to the colour lapis lazuli, used in many religious and monarachical painting in the renaissance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapis_lazuli

But you also have variations of colours. Grey is considered cold and bleak but you get cold and warm greys, both giving off different vibes.

[~spaced~]

...there is also the argument that Black and also white are not colours, but classed as non-colours

[Marg0]

Colours are not real. They don't really exist without the likes of humans. Oh sure blue is this wavelength, and red is this wavelength, but that is only giving me information that is already present in the description. Like 'the difference between bus and car is, well, bus is big and carries passengers.' I already knew that from the word 'bus'.
If we did not eat fruit, it is unlikely we would ever have colours of any kind.

[Marg0]

By this account, black and white are colours.

[tigerlily11]

I always found blue makes me feel warm more than cold. I find it relaxing and pleasent as colours go. Green is fresh.
Yellow is also warm, bright and happy.
Red is fun.
White makes me very happy.
Orange belongs on the fruit, anywhere else and it looks a bit silly to me. Orange cars. WTF were they thinking.
I love all colours if they come in matalic. Epsecially metalic green.

On the subject of blue. If u paint and intire room, including the floor and ceiling it is supposed to make u see ghosts.
never tried it so I can't say for sure if it does.

[~spaced~]

the black and white colour argument is a neverending discussion.

Place all colours on a wheel like so
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~psyc351/Images/Col orWheel2.jpg

and spin the wheel, and you will see all the colours disappear, and the circle will become white

[sandrajo]

Black
Power, sexuality, sophistication, formality, elegance, wealth, mystery, fear, evil, anonymity, unhappiness, depth, style, evil, sadness, remorse, anger, underground, good technical color, mourning, death (Western cultures).

I don't get why colours aren't real....

[sandrajo]

I also disagree with the green spaced but I totally agree with the yellow

[Marg0]

well what do you mean by 'colour', spaced? If it is something real, then fine, there is a question over black and white. But if it is just a label for wavelengths on the visible radiation spectrum, then black and white have as much right to be there as the others.
Red is only red cos it's red for humans. It means nothing to my pet cat or snake. Does that mean they are missing something?
Do you know what a blorg is? It's probably the shape an electrical signal makes to a shark, when someone is thrashing nearby in the water. Other than 'electrical impulse', it describes nothing to you, but it means everything to the shark. Does this make it real? It's only real for the shark. In the same way, colours are only real for you, which means subjective, which probably means not objectively real.

[sandrajo]

The world would be a very very dull place if we didn't have colour in it.

[Octavius]

Notice you didn't add fluffy pink like angels and fairies and little babies.

4get I always see redcrx clad in black leathers straddling a powerful throbbing beast of a thing.

[Marg0]

I notice from watching films that in fact the whole world was free of colour until circa 1950. Life must have been so difficult.
Easier to choose shoes, I suppose.

[funnygirl]

I love reds and pinks!!

Reds sums me up. Passionate, dangerous, fiery and love.

[sandrajo]

Just think of the money they must of saved!

Do you paint in black and white then?

[redcrx]

pmsl oct, wonder if Mr CRX likes you picturing him as a beast! :)

i knew i shouldnt have posted the pic of my leathers, its obviously set you going off on a tangent lol