Colour Quote by 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

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

I don't think that we are capable of anything like this many possible colour responses. Instead I argue that the perception of colour differences…

— David Papineau

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

There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact.

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

We never really perceive what color is physically!

— Josef Albers

Color has its own uniqueness in personality.

— Anonymous

A person who can explain color to a blind man can explain everything in life..

— Anonymous

Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it.

— George Orwell

We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

— Josef Albers

It is not by his mixing and choosing, but by the shapes of his colors, and the combination of those shapes, that we recognize…

— Clive Bell