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The destruction of sight, wherever the injuries be sustained, followsthe same law: all colors are aected in the _st place,and lose theirsaturation. Then the spectrum is simpli_d, being reduced to four andsoon to two colors; _ally a grey monochrome stage is reached,although the pathological color is never identi_ble with any normalone. Thus in central as in peripheral lesions __he loss of nervous substance results not only in a de_iency of certain qualities, but in thechange to a less dierentiated and more primitive structure_.

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Phenomenology of Perception

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The destruction of sight, wherever the injuries be sustained, follows the same law: all colours are aected in the _st place, and lose their saturation. Then the spectrum is simpli_d, being reduced to four andsoon to two colours; _ally a grey monochrome stage is reached, although the pathological colour is never identi_ble with any normal one. Thus in central as in peripheral lesions __he loss of nervous substance results not only in a de_iency of certain qualities, but in the change to a less dierentiated and more primitive structure_.

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Phenomenology of Perception

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It's tempting to think of red for sun," she said, "but it has to be just a dash, not much. More of a dark orange and a hint of brown. And then white on yellow on white. Not bright white,' she said. 'The kind of white that makes you squint, but in a softer way...''Go look at fire for a while. Go spend some time with fire.'Looking at fire was interesting, I have to admit. I sat with a candle for a couple hours. It has these stages of color: the white, the yellow, the red, the tiny spot of blue I'd heard mentioned but never noticed.

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Aimee Bender

The Color Master: Stories

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I don't want these. They're mud and they've got no color. Or at least the color is different from what I'm used to. Take any American city, in autumn, or in winter, when the light makes the colors dance and flow, and look at it from a distant hill or from a boat in the bay or on the river, and you will see in any section of the view far better paintings than in this lentil soup that you people have to pedigree in order to love. I may be a thief, but I know color when I see it in the flash of heaven or in the Devil's opposing tricks, and I know mud. Mr. Knoedler, you needn't worry about your paintings anymore. I'm not going to steal them. I don't like them.Sincerely yours, P. Soames