Author: Johann Wolfgang von (translated by Charles Lock Eastlake) Goethe

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• Tracy Chevalier (1)
  • IN: The Virgin Blue (1997) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: As yellow is always accompanied with light, so it may be said that blue still brings a principle of darkness with it. The colour has a peculiar and almost indescribable effect on the eye. As a hue it is powerful, but it is on the negative side, and in its highest purity is, as it were, a stimulating negation. Its appearance, then, is a kind of contradiction between excitement and repose.
    FROM: Theory of Colours, (1810), Book, Germany