In this roundup, we’re rolling out the red carpet for the color of the rainbow that turns the most heads. Red is the best color to capture and style your subjects, sets, and props with, especially if you’re looking to turn up the drama and heat in your photos. All eyes are immediately drawn to this powerful shade—in some cases, a slight pop of red can go a long way in your images. Just take a look at these 19 red-hot stunners that we gathered as examples of this color’s best uses in photos. And because red can symbolize anything from fire to love to courage to anger, we also collected some quotes about the color to go along with your viewing experience. Scroll down, and see if these images piqued your interest like it did for us.

long way home by The Stillery x Natta Summerky on 500px

“Bright reds—scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry—are very cheerful and youthful. There is certainly a red for everyone.” — Christian Dior

High angle view of Pacific Islander woman making sand angel on beach by The Stillery x Natta Summerky on 500px

“Red is the great clarifier—bright and revealing. I can’t imagine becoming bored with red. It would be like becoming bored with the person you love.” — Diana Vreeland

Business Man by The Stillery x Natta Summerky on 500px

“Of all the hues, reds have the most potency. If there is one electric blue, a dozen reds are so charged. Use them to punctuate white, burn into bronzes, or dynamite black.” — Jack Lenor Larsen

only god forgives by The Stillery x Natta Summerky on 500px

“Red, of course, is the color of the interior of our bodies. In a way it’s inside out, red.” — Anish Kapoor

Smiling woman riding bicycle across urban bridge, New York, New York, United States by The Stillery x Natta Summerky on 500px

“When in doubt wear red.” — Bill Blass

Syrup of plum??? by The Stillery x Natta Summerky on 500px

“A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.” — Henri Matisse

Perpignan - red house by The Stillery x Natta Summerky on 500px

“Everything utilitarian needs a little red edge.” — Reno Dakota

Burano island by The Stillery x Natta Summerky on 500px

“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

Red wall by The Stillery x Natta Summerky on 500px

Cosmic Love by The Stillery x Natta Summerky on 500px

“You can’t go wrong with the use of red; every painting should have red in it.” — George De Groat

C.R.A.Z.Y by The Stillery x Natta Summerky on 500px

“The “pure” red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters’ caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations.” — Robert Motherwell

Raspberry popsicles by The Stillery x Natta Summerky on 500px

Lotus by The Stillery x Natta Summerky on 500px

“Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.” — Eugene Delacroix

One of many by The Stillery x Natta Summerky on 500px

Unidentified Burmese woman walking on U Bein Bridge by The Stillery x Natta Summerky on 500px

Surfer Girl Gone Dawn Patrol by The Stillery x Natta Summerky on 500px

Red by The Stillery x Natta Summerky on 500px

“Painters use red like spice.” — Derek Jarman

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Fire show amazing at night by The Stillery x Natta Summerky on 500px

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