[V]iolet… inclines to purple, and so seems to conceal under an ashy blue the pride and passion of red. – Charles Blanc, Art in Ornament and Dress, “Personal Adornment: Colours and Their

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. – Pedro Calderón de la Barca

[T]he colored pencil. The day we received our first full box of assorted colors we felt grown-up, the passage from baby status to childhood was complete. The broken wax crayon stubbles were immediately thrown out to make way for the more elegant and “mature” pencils. – Bernard Aimé Poulin (b.1945), The Complete Colored Pencil Book, 2011