Colour Quote by David Papineau

Colour is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it To work…

— David Batchelor

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

— Henri Matisse

Color is an intense experience on its own.

— Jim Hodges

I don't think that we can figure out what is going on in conscious colour perception just by phenomenological introspection. We need to know…

— David Papineau

The orthodox view of colour experience assumes that, when we see a colour difference between two surfaces viewed side-by-side, this is because we have…

— David Papineau

If neuroscientific research shows that those mechanisms only contain comparative information about colour differences, and have 'thrown away' more fine-grained information about the absolute…

— David Papineau

Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at…

— Henri Matisse

Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.

— Marion Milner

There is a brain mechanism that works to identify colour differences directly, without first identifying the absolute colour of each surface. So on my…

— David Papineau

In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment.

— Monty Don

Colors are things we experience.

— Alva Noe

Only those who love color are admitted to its beauty and immanent presence. It affords utility to all, but unveils its deeper mysteries only…

— Johannes Itten