Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.
Derek JarmanViolet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme.
Derek JarmanI wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.
Derek Jarman