Arguing Quote by David Papineau

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

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

I think of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on the surface.

— Jules Olitski

Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.

— Josef Albers

Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?

— Krishna Das

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon – it is the very heart of painting. Repeated experiments with adjacent colors will show…

— Josef Albers

Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and so on.

— Leonardo da Vinci

We never really perceive what color is physically!

— Josef Albers

But it will be found... that one universal law prevails in all these phenomena. Where two portions of the same light arrive in the…

— Thomas Young

Colors are things we experience.

— Alva Noe

I think my view is rather more radical than Pete Mandik's. Both of us want to show that colour perception doesn't transcend what can…

— David Papineau