“If one says 'Red' and there are 50 people listening, it can be expected that there will be 50 reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.”

— Josef Albers

Albers, quoted by Patricia Sloane (1989) in The visual nature of color, p. 1

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