[Jean] Varda taught me that if you leave a chair long enough on the beach, it becomes bleached into the most beautiful color imaginable which you could never find with paint.

Prior to the advent of brain, there was no color and no sound in the universe, nor was there any flavor or aroma and probably little sense and no feeling or emotion. Before brains the universe was also free of pain and anxiety.

—Roger Sperry, "Changing Priorities," Annual Review of Neuroscience 4 (1981)

There are seven colours, the perfect number, one for every day of the week, and Sunday is violet.

—Derek Jarman, Chroma

"In the first light of dawn I turn white as a sheet, as I swallow the white pills to keep me alive ... attacking the virus which is destroying my white blood cells."

—Derek Jarman, Chroma

"I take it that the use of snow white is like that of golden yellow, more symbolical than descriptive meaning of any white that gives the impression of purity."

Gertrude Jekyll, Wood and Garden