Cases Quote by Josef Albers

In choosing a colour one must realize that it changes in different aspects.

— Nancy Lancaster

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

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

— Marion Milner

Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a…

— Alexander Theroux

Colors speak all languages.

— Joseph Addison

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem…

— David Antin

As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly, that totally…

— Dave Hickey

Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles…

— Eugene Delacroix

Color is a language, like music.

— Vlady Kibalchich Russakov

For a long time I limited myself to one colour—as a form of discipline.

— Pablo Picasso

For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.

— Vincent Van Gogh

When a language advances and adds a third term to its lexicon for color, the third term is always red.

— Daniel Levitin