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The sensation of colour cannot be accounted for by the physicist's objective picture of light-waves.

 

Erwin Schrodinger

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My colour has no symbolic function whatever. I don't want any colour to be noticeable. I want the colour to be the colour of life, so that you would notice it as being irregular if it changed. I don't want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent. I don't want people to say, "Oh, what was that red or that blue picture of yours, I've forgotten what it was."

 

Lucian Freud

 

The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected.

 

Thomas Nagel

 

The age we live in is largely – and I think mostly – ‘objective’, but a minority is reacting against this .. ..My feeling is that I made colour –m the colour plane – ‘objective’ in 1918, 1920 and 1921. There is a feeling of objectivity in all the great Primitives- but in ‘the subject’ there is no solution for the object, which has so much intrinsic value that it is ‘’highly explosive’: it destroys all the things around it, unless they have been designed specifically to serve as a setting for it. (a letter to Simone Herman, 1933)

 

Fernand Leger

 

Collect impressions. Don’t be in a hurry to write them down. Because that’s something music can do better than painting: it can centralise variations of colour and light within a single picture — a truth generally ignored, obvious as it is.

 

Claude Debussy

 

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher. Why then should it not be the right thing for the physicist to let the philosopher do the philosophizing? Such might indeed be the right thing to do a time when the physicist believes he has at his disposal a rigid system of fundamental laws which are so well established that waves of doubt can't reach them; but it cannot be right at a time when the very foundations of physics itself have become problematic as they are now. At a time like the present, when experience forces us to seek a newer and more solid foundation, the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of theoretical foundations; for he himself knows best and feels more surely where the shoe pinches. In looking for an new foundation, he must try to make clear in his own mind just how far the concepts which he uses are justified, and are necessities.

 

Albert Einstein