In a letter to Auguste Macke. Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. Anybody who paints and sees a sky green and pastures blue ought to be sterilized. Also see degenerate art . I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue.
Jules Feiffer, contemporary American cartoonist and writer. With excellent text and graphics, several pages thoroughly explain various aspects of color, along with color mixing with pigments, light, and optics. Chalkboard comes from the College of Art at Southern Arkansas University. Also see local color , monochrome , palette , pattern , pigment , saturation , spectrum , texture , and value .