A view of the Space Needle from the Chihuly Garden

About Dale Chihuly

Chihuly Garden and Glass

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Pablo Picasso

Plant List and Garden Map

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want people to be overwhelmed with light and color in a way they have never experienced.

Dale Chihuly

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

Paul Delaunay

Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.

Joseph Addison

It seems obvious that colors vary according to lights, because when any color is placed in the shade, it appears to be different from the same color which is located in light. Shade makes color dark, whereas light makes color bright where it strikes.

Leon Battista Alberti

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?

Pablo Picasso

Northwest Room

At the Chihuly Garden and Glass

Northwest Room

At the Chihuly Garden and Glass

Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

John Ruskin

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

Hans Hofmann

Northwest Room

At the Chihuly Garden and Glass

Sealife Room

At the Chihuly Garden and Glass

Sealife Room

At the Chihuly Garden and Glass

Sealife Room

At the Chihuly Garden and Glass

Sealife Room

At the Chihuly Garden and Glass

Seattle Washington

Colors speak all languages.

Joseph Addison

Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way.

Dale Chihuly

Sealife Room

At the Chihuly Garden and Glass

Seattle Washington

Life is about using the whole box of crayons.

Rupaul

Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.

Henri Matisse

Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.

Paul Klee

Color provokes a psychic vibration.

Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.

Wassily Kandinsky

I never met a color I didn't like.

Dale Chihuly

Ikebana and Float Boats

Chihuly Garden and Glass

Seattle Washington

Ikebana and Float Boats

Chihuly Garden and Glass

Seattle Washington

Ikebana and Float Boats

A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.

Henri Matisse

Ikebana and Float Boats

Chihuly Garden and Glass

Seattle Washington

Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.

Paul Gauguin

Ikebana and Float Boats

Chihuly Garden and Glass

Seattle Washington

If one says 'red' - the name of color - and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different. 

Josef Albers

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

Vincent Van Gogh

Color is the fruit of life.

Guillaume Apollinaire

Color... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes.

Charles Baudelaire

A view of Seattle's waterfront, from the balcony of the apartment where we stayed.

All colours will agree in the dark.

Francis Bacon