Yellow (n.) is a color of pure astonishment. All things being equal, our interest is aroused more by the yellowness of a dress than if it were any other color. Clumps of yellow flowers fight to catch our eye.
Yellow (n.) is a color that stabilizes surrounding colors.
Yellow (n.) comfortably adjusts the other colors to fit your vision; it is the ideal sunglasses refined enough for intra-color discrimination.
Yellow (n.) is a color which, in the background, elongates all surrounding shades. Nothing flattens out a face like a tow-head.
Yellow (n.) is a color which, no matter how inadequately you perceive a color, you can rinse your eyes with and the color’s light-wave vibrations become visible.
Yellow (n.) is like a quick color massage, helping the eyes breathe relaxation. We may someday learn how to soothe our visual imperfections with in an ophthalmic procedure as good as any surgical intervention.
Yellow (n.) is that color which stings with lemon juice in pale yellow.
Yellow (n.) is that color which stinks in brown. A brown dress slows down the mild odors of the body, speeding up its strong odors: sweat, breath, and the tart whiffs from the joints.
Yellow (n.) is the “layered color”; as many layers as there are hues.
Yellow (n.) is the absolute anchor of Light, the Longest Lasting color, and the supreme symbol of eternity.
Yellow (n.) lingers longer than any other color. It has the best “echo.” Shut your eyes. It will be the last color to disappear.
Yellow (n.) is the common denominator of color.
Yellow (n.) is the compass needle of color, the sextant of chromatic astronomy. Without the yellow in sunlight, colors would shoot off in all directions in the human eye, and we would be born with colorcrazy vision.
Yellow (n.) is the exclamation point of color grammar.
Yellow (n.) is the most “centered” of all colors, the bullseye color that shoots back at us every time we look at it. If we ever come to executing criminals with colors, a luminous discharge of electronic yellow straight to the center of the brain would make the perfect projectile.
Yellow (n.) is the most “spatial” color of all.
Yellow (n.) is the most perfect of rounded arches. All other color arches are pulled into ogival form as light magnetically reshapes them. Light rays distort yellow less than other colors, which they collapse, twist, and stretch out. Earth-brown and greenery tend to stabilize yellow here and there as the complement to the blue sky above.
Yellow (n.) is the most voracious of all colors. It consumes your vision without draining your eyes. You can waste away if you stare too long at yellow.
Yellow (n.) is the quivering needle on the balance scale of color.