"[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."

"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…"

"Just as when painters are elaborating temple-offerings, men whom wisdom hath well taught their art,—they, when they h…"

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