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dad joke

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glitter

blue

trivia

colorblindness

hunger

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concealment

covering

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etymology

concealing

perception

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Golden Gate Bridge

bird

haiku

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Smurf

one-liner

nonsense question

paint

physics

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marker

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is a combination of light, darkness, and intensity. As such, 'red' is not a color, but only one aspect, the hue, of some partially defined color.

Hue does not refer to how light, dark, or intense, but only what kind of color: what hue. It takes all three aspects to make a color, therefore 'red' is not a color, but only one aspect, the hue, of some partially defined color. (William Tapley)

is a language. It is emotional, physical, communicative.

Color affects our life. Color is physical. . . we see it. Color communicates. . . we receive information from the language of color. Color is emotional. . . it evokes our feelings. (Bride M. Whelan)

is a plastic means of creating intervals. . . Color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals. . . color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony. (Hans Hofmann)

is a universal language and so requires no words.

Colour is a universal language so requires no words. . . (Sheila Timmins)

is able to be dealt with only when it is realized that it is, in its basic character, unstable (in contrast to form).

The actual basis of color is instability. Once you accept that in lieu of something which is stable, which is form, you are dealing with something which is unstable in its basic character, you begin to get a way of dealing with it. (Bridget Riley)

is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music... everything is vibration.

Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music... everything is vibration. (Marc Chagall)

Color is always a consequence, never a cause. (Edwin Land)

is an action, not a thing. It is not fixed as a noun, with properties and differences... instead, it acts as a verb: Yellow can 'redden' and red can 'yellow'.

For Goethe, colors are actions, not things. As he phrased it, more generally, the 'objects' (Gegenstände) of nature are better viewed as 'acts' (Tätigkeiten) (Fink 1991: 44). For this reason, Goethe preferred the classical Greek discourse of color to the German. In the Greek, color is not fixed as a noun, with properties and differences... instead, it acts as a verb: yellow can 'redden' and red can 'yellow' (Fink 1991: 47). Goethe also criticized Newton's omission of the role of darkness in the production of light, calling it a 'light darkness polarity.' Light could only appear in a dialectic with darkness a dialog, if you will, invoking the Faust/Mephistopheles duality.

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