“The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.”

— Claude Debussy

Letter to Ernest Chausson (1894)

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French composer 1862–1918

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Variant: It [grey color] makes no statement whatever... It has the capacity that no other color has, to make 'nothing' visible. To me grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, non-commitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape (note 99).... but, grey like formlessness and the rest, can be real only as an idea.... The painting is then a mixture of grey as a fiction and grey as a visible, designated area of color.