MURASAKI SHIKIBU (b. 973; Japanese poet, novelist):
"Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world." (from The Tale of Genji)
HANS HOFMANN (1880-1960; painter):
"The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color."
JOAN MIRÓ (1893-1983; Spanish painter, sculptor):
"I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music."
