"[T]he increase in amount of color... visually reduces distance. ...[I]t often produces nearness -- meaning intimacy -…"

"There, for the price of just two sous, I found crépons and rice papers in astonishing colours. I covered the walls of…"

"[Color effects] are never absolute but are relative to the total situation..."

"[P]ure light, such as that from the sun has no color, but is made colored by its degradation when interacting with ob…"

"[L]ight ...is the colour of the transparent medium contingently determined; for when anything of the nature of fire i…"

"Colour has a logic as exact as that of form. One must not give up before capturing that first impression."

"When Michael saw this host, he first grew pale, As angels can; next like Italian twilight, He turned all colours—as a…"

"From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heav'nly figures from his pencil …"

"Once a pallid vestal doubted truth in blue; Listed red as ruin, Harried every hue;Barracaded vision, garbed herself i…"

"The colors of my life Are bountiful and bold, The purple glow of indigo, The gleam of green and gold. The splendor of…"