“It seems obvious that colors vary according to lights, because when any color is placed in the shade, it appears to be different from the same color which is located in light. Shade makes color dark, whereas light makes color bright where it strikes.” DifferentLightSeemsDarkColorObviousStrikesColourShadeVary Author:Leon Battista Alberti
“Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great any of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color.” IfsMadeShowsEyeWaterNatureAnimalSkyEventsFieldsColorBlueGreenPaintVegetablesVarySuperfluousMineralsHue Author:Leigh Hunt
“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.” LifeMayUsedColorCircumstancesSkinsTransparentCrystalsVaryRight Words Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.