If one says “Red” (the name of a color) and there are 50 people listening, it can be expected that there will be 50 reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.

What has been said does not simply belong to us.

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon – it is the very heart of painting. Repeated experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.