One must not look at color by itself, but in conjunction with the color of the sky! That sky is grey - but so iridescent that even our pure white would be unable to render the light and shimmer.
Letter to Theo: on solidarity and the color of the sky Vincent Van Gogh, 1883
The Man Made Mad with Fear Gustave Courbet, 1843
I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naiveté has no peer but my own.
The Manifesto of Surrealism André Breton, 1924
