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A mixture of light and heat... orange plays a brilliant part in th

A mixture of light and heat… orange plays a brilliant part in the decoration of the universe. It gives life to the harmonies of the dawn, and mingling with the dramatic scene of declining day, it adds its numberless vibrations to the endless novelty of spectacle which the sinking sun presents. – Charles Blanc, Art in Ornament and Dress, “Personal Adornment: Colours and Their

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A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic. – Bill Watterson

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Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world. – Murasaki Shikibu

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[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

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Give crayons. Adults are disturbingly impoverished of these magical dream sticks. – Dr.SunWolf, 2009 tweet, professorsunwolf.com [And a few years later comes the ad

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