Blue (n.) adheres tenuously to the forms of things. It makes poor concealment for flabby flesh and doesn’t suit hesitant gestures. Blue is the ideal color for the rigid bearing of “military” frames. Unfurl a flag to blue at the end and all the other colors come tumbling down.
Blue (n.) is darker than black — black is merely a deep well of infinite blue: Absolute blue would be deeper than all the blacks put together.
Blue (n.) is the 'two' of the absolute; looking at blue, the eyes go from left to right and from right to left, as if two luminous facets were gently sending them back and forth.
Blue (n.) compresses our vision more than any other color.
Blue (n.) makes all other colors appear to be suspended in space. Without the blue sky, all nature would be a picture-book instead of life’s volume of moving pictures.
Blue (n.) is the expiring color. All swoons are blue swoons. We die in blue. Even the sunflower fades into blue before it dies.
Blue (n.) is the first to take over in mixed colors.
Blue (n.) is the ideal color for the rigid bearing of “military” frames. Unfurl a flag to blue at the end and all the other colors come tumbling down.
Blue (n.) is the the comma of color grammar.
Blue (n.) is transformed by movement — Shake up blue and it deepens into ultramarine.