National Coloring Day is celebrated annually on Sept.14 to honor the art form which is popular among kids and adults alike.

Coloring is not just popular as an art form that helps you to express yourself, but many people take up it as a hobby to relax and meditate.

Coloring is a fun and relaxing activity that is beneficial both for kids and adults.

Here are some benefits of coloring:

  • Coloring improves focus and brain function: Coloring requires the coordination of the two hemispheres of the brain as it needs both logic and creativity to stay inside the lines while coloring.
  • Coloring helps to reduce stress and anxiety: While engaged in coloring, a person relaxes his amygdala, the fear center of the brain. This helps to reduce stress and anxiety just the same way meditation would help.
  • Coloring can help to improve sleep: Coloring before going to bed can help you get better sleep as it relaxes the body and reduces your dependency on electronic gadgets.

You can celebrate National Coloring Day by buying a new coloring book for yourself and indulging in the art form.

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Here are some interesting quotes about colors. (Courtesy: House Beautiful, Cleverpedia)

  1. "Color is my day-long obsession, joy, and torment."- Claude Monet
  2. "My childhood smells like a box of Crayola crayons."- Terri Guillemets
  3. "Artists are just children who refused to put down their crayons."- Al Hirschfeld
  4. "Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams."- Paul Gauguin
  5. "Color is a power which directly influences the soul."- Wassily Kandinsky
  6. "I am a believer that color affects people's moods."- Lilly Pulitzer
  7. "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way."- Georgia O'Keeffe
  8. "There's a reason we don't see the world in black and white."- Celerie Kemble
  9. "Color helps to express light—not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain."- Henri Matisse
  10. "You can never judge a paint hue by the liquid color in the paint pot. You must apply it to the wall, wait for the paint to dry, then decide."- Dorothy Draper
  11. "With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft."- Henri Matisse
  12. "Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of color to express myself more forcefully."- Vincent van Gogh