Colour Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Do not several sorts of Rays make Vibrations of several bignesses, which according to their bigness excite Sensations of several Colours, much after the…

— Isaac Newton

Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name…

— Stan Brakhage

Eighty percent of the information we receive comes through our eyes. And if you compare light energy to musical scales, it would only be…

— Louis Schwartzberg

Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a…

— Derek Jarman

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 complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to…

— Ellen Meloy

“Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name…

— Stan Brakhage

The outer eyes see only by reflection. The vibrationsfrom the inner eye, optic, is conveyed along the opticnerves and produced, spectacular, on the ether.

— George Carey

If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of…

— Thomas Young

Of how much light will my destinys eyes have to become aware until it will come true in death?

— Sorin Cerin

You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects…

— William Merritt Chase

You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects…

— William Merritt Chase