Why are you quoting the whole thing?
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/color-theme-6.6.0"')
(add-to-list'load-path "~/.emacs.d/emacs-color-theme-solarized-master"')
You do not want the last '.
You are only suppose to quote load-path so that it is passed to the add-to-list with out being evaluated.
Try using this:
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/color-theme-6.6.0")
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/emacs-color-theme-solarized-master")
For more information See:
add-to-list
load-path
In addition to above you may want to add the following to your init.el put it somewhere after ` (require 'color-theme) '
(eval-after-load "color-theme"
'(progn
(color-theme-initialize)
;; Load solarized at startup
(color-theme-solarized)))
The code above is from the color-theme site, my reputation is not high enough to post more that one link else I would have include it.