Isaac Newton Quotes

How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?

I'm in love with red. I think it's such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. It's power, there's no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you don't. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. They're all magic.

If I hold up a red square for 30 seconds and take it away, you will see a perfect green square. It's how the eye works. So if you want to paint a really good red painting, you have to strategically place in some green, so the eye is brought back.

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.

Red's my favorite color.

There are colors we can't see, but they're connected to the ones we can, There's a connection between everything.

If you take blue paint and yellow paint and you mix them, you get green paint. But if you take blue light and yellow light and mix them, you get white light. This is a shock to most people.

The voice is nothing but beaten air.

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.

Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density when a sound is passing through it, I can telegraph any sound, even the sound of speech.

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that.

Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?

Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.

Crystals are amplifying minerals. You have a crystal in a radio - it amplifies the sound waves. You have a crystal in a television set - it amplifies the light waves. When you hold crystals, they amplify thought waves.

My goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light.

In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps.

The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.

Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.

Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color.

They say no one knows if we all see red the same way. Except traffic cops.

Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.