Appearance Quote by Thomas Young

Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind; those who are blind to blue have no…

— Otto Weininger

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.

— Henry David Thoreau

The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I was wondering about my eyes; one of my eyes--the left--saw everything golden and yellow and orange, and the other eye saw shades of…

— Shirley Jackson

“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

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

Repeated similar experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from colors which it carries and therefore influences.

— Josef Albers

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

Between black and white there throbs the universe of chromatic phenomena.

— Johannes Itten

“Indeed how might it be if things revealed their colors only when (in our terms) no light fell on them - if, for example,…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.

— John Ruskin

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

— Robert Delaunay