White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. – G. K. Chesterton

The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You dont always know if it is green or violet, you cant even say its blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray. – Vincent Van Gogh