Isaac Newton Quotes

But surely, speaking carefully, we do not sense 'red' and 'blue' any more than 'resemblance' (or 'qualities' any more than 'relations'): we sense something of which we might say, if we wished to talk about it, that 'this is red.'

The word "Blue" does not mean the sensation caused by a gentian on the human eye; but it means the power of producing that sensation: and this power is always there, in the thing, whether we are there to experience it or not, and would remain there though there were not a man left on the face of the earth.

It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent.

The sensation of colour cannot be accounted for by the physicist's objective picture of light-waves.

An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour sensations. So that light does not exist for the painter.

You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?

There are colors we can't see, but they're connected to the ones we can, There's a connection between everything.

We're made for the light of a cave and for twilight. Twilight is the time we see best. When we dim the light down, and the pupil opens, feeling comes out of the eye like touch. Then you really can feel colour, and experience it.

Do not several sorts of Rays make Vibrations of several bignesses, which according to their bigness excite Sensations of several Colours, much after the manner that the Vibrations of the Air, according to their several bignesses excite Sensations of several Sounds? And particularly do not the most refrangible Rays excite the shortest Vibrations for making a Sensation of deep violet, the least refrangible the largest form making a Sensation of deep red, and several intermediate sorts of Rays, Vibrations of several intermediate bignesses to make Sensations of several intemediate Colours?

The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.

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

The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music.

Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.

Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.

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

There is no criterion by which to recognize what is a color, except that it is one of our colors.

We become intoxicated with color, with words that speak of color, and with the sun that makes colors brighter.

If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire.

Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form.

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?

Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.

The earth is blue like an orange.

We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.