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The eyes of flowers come in countless varieties of color, with the exception of green. If a plant had green eyes it would look insane, as if it had lost the wits of its way among the green leaves.
Gray puts the mind to sleep, as brown the nerves. Whenever you feel indolent, give your mind a jolt of red, and your nerves a dash of yellow.
Pink is a plump color. Wear it to put on weight.
Red attracts all surrounding colors, like a lover, and displaces form.
In full sunlight white serves as the reference point for all the other colors, standing in light itself, while the others try to ride the breakers in the surf of air.
Yellow is the longest lingering of colors. Yellow has the best "echo". Shut your eyes and it will be the last color to disappear.
The eye takes good color pictures but wretched technicolor movies.
It's impossible to grasp the movement of forms without letting some of the color escape.
Shadows adhere to red, float above yellow, sink into violet. Shadows are either inside or outside color, depending on the hue.
Colors are registered on the retina at different speeds of perception. If the orchestra conductor's baton were yellow, red, or green, instead of black, the entire tempo of the orchestra would be changed.
White has a very low density. In prismatic osmosis the registers penetrate white more easily than white penetrates color.
Yellow is the strongest color solvent. Yellow dissolves the other colors, even stubborn black, which it melts into brown.
Light dazzle is light in grease paint.
Yellow is the skeletal framework of the prism. Eliminate yellow from the spectrum and the structural form of light would soften and collapse and turn gray.
Children's eyes see color better than form; adults' eyes see form better than color. No human eye is capable of seeing both to the same degree.
Colors are the floating markers in the ocean wastes of light, where the sun's only horizon is the human eye.
As a visual phenomenon the cavity is variable in depth since color changes its capacity. Deepen a bowl by painting it blue; Paint it white to make it shallow.
Bronze: mauve and pink shading into each other. Bronze: equal portions of overcooked mauve and undercooked pink.
Yellow stings in lemon juice and stinks in brown, whose intensity increases the stench. A brown dress slows the mild odors of the body, speeding up its strong odors.
We ordinarily rely to some extent on our eyes to tell us where a sound is coming from. In a colorless world we would be partially deaf. In a soundless world perspective would tend to flatten out.
Distance compresses the color of an object as well as the object itself. If color weren't equally affected, all far-off objects would be wearing halos. Complementary colors side by side yearn for each other. Put a yellow border around them and they will melt together. Yellow raises the emotional temperature in all color combinations.
If there were two suns illuminating the world instead of just one, all colors would be in circumflex accent and all objects drawn up into the letter "i". Color would tend to gush upward from the spout of form...two opposing sources of light make things thinner.
Black eyes impart a blue tone to white skin. In the realm of living things, black associated with white creates blue rather than gray.
The rainbow and the human face ask us to consider the same question:where does the picture begin and the frame end?
The brilliance of sunshine is a rapid tattoo of slaps. Blinding light on water is like a "rabbit punch". There is something shameful about being dazzled; even persons of remarkable sensibility feel an inclination to blush then.
Yellow and blue can't control themselves from blending together as green. Unless it has a touch of indigo in it, blue simply soaks up any yellow that gets to close to it.
In blurring color at a distance speed is the prototype of camouflage. If the eyes never moved they would see everything through a grating.
Artists are only students of light apprenticed to flowers as their only teacher. Artists practice the art of coloring under flowers who teach the science of color. There is no greater master of color or form than the flower, and she teaches by looking: not you looking at her but her looking at you. The real painter is the one who lets the flower hold him in her gaze not the celebrated artist with his priceless work.
Colors relay sight. If nature were all one color, the eyes would be worn out long before sunset, and in order to recuperate from the effort man would have to sleep twice as long as he does now. The more colorful the landscape, the more it rests the eyes. Modern eye-fatigue is the result of the unvaried grayness of our cities with their one-crop culture.
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