“Black is the most aristocratic color of all…There is no color that will give you the feeling of totality. Of peace. Of greatness. Of quietness. Of excitement.”— Louise Nevelson, amazon.com
“We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.”— Josef Albers, amazon.com
“Blood shooting up our cheeks is one such natural response that is triggered automatically when we are attracted to someone. A man too can’t hide from this! So, if he has a lot of color in his face, that is a good sign!”— Riya Roy, newlovetimes.com
“Colors have different effects on people based on their personal preference, cultural upbringing, and experiences. As such, in order to understand how people will react to your design, you need to identify your audience.”— Jonathan Z. White, medium.freecodecamp.com
“Serenity and Rose Quartz sound like perfumes from a Parisian boutique, but they’re actually just the names of Pantone’s lame ass colors of the year.”— Steven Markow, medium.com
“I sit up in the dark drenched in longing. I am carrying over a thousand names for blue that I didn’t have at dusk.”— Joy Harjo, amazon.com
“Within the profound and shining subsistence of the lofty Light appeared to me three circles of three colors and one magnitude, and one seemed reflected by the other, as rainbow by rainbow, and the third seemed fire breathed forth equally from the one and the other.”— Dante Alighieri, amazon.com
“Miranda smiled at the thought that that there were people in this reeling world who were safe. She opened her eyes in time to see the sunrise. A wash of violent color, pink and streaks of brilliant orange, the container ships on the horizon suspended between the blaze of the sky and the water aflame…”— Emily St. John Mandel, amazon.com
“And all these gradations of meaning at once, three minds interlocking like a color wheel, focusing to the central white spot of revelation and truth. There were no barriers, as in oral conversation. Like light the thoughts intermeshed and wove in question, answer, and statement, and despite the conc…”— Henry Kuttner, amazon.com
“But if one imagines a world in which humans never appeared with their contingently evolved visual system, then there is no basis for assigning colors to any object. Why should a surface with a given surface spectral reflectance be called 'yellow'? Without reference to the particular characteristics…”— Ronald N. Giere, amazon.com
“Humans are trichromats, which is to say, their retinas contain three different types of receptors (called cones for their shape when viewed through a microscope) with three different pigments sensitive to three different ranges of the visible spectrum. These three pigments, conventionally labeled S(…”— Ronald N. Giere, amazon.com
“Don’t try to see what all the colors look like when they’re added up. Instead, try to get into as many (revealing) moods as possible, as many ways of responding to the sacred as you can— and this life of serial resonances with the sacred is ultimately a kind of contentedness, happiness, even joy.”— Hubert Dreyfus, amazon.com