Carolina QuotesIn visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is — as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
Josef Albers Connected to the Carolinas
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Quoted in: Margaret Walch (1979) Color source book, p. 98
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- 1979
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- p. 98
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