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.
“Bright reds—scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry—are very cheerful and youthful. There is certainly a red for everyone.” — Christian Dior
“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
“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
“Red, of course, is the color of the interior of our bodies. In a way it’s inside out, red.” — Anish Kapoor
“When in doubt wear red.” — Bill Blass
“A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.” — Henri Matisse
“Everything utilitarian needs a little red edge.” — Reno Dakota
“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
“You can’t go wrong with the use of red; every painting should have red in it.” — George De Groat
“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
“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
“Painters use red like spice.” — Derek Jarman
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