8 Quotes by Kassia St. Clair

"Van Gogh's sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just like their real-life counterparts did."

"Canopy, an environmental organisation, believes that 120 million trees are felled each year to produce rayon and other cellulose-based materials."

"So, in a way, the color we perceive an object to be is precisely the color it isn’t: that is, the segment of the spectrum that is being reflected away."

"Different things are different colors because they absorb some wavelengths of the visible light spectrum, while others bounce off. So the tomato’s skin is soaking up most of the short and medium wavelengths – blues and violets, greens, yellows and oranges. The remainder, the reds, hit our eyes and are processed by our brains. So, in a way, the color we perceive an object to be is precisely the color it isn’t: that is, the segment of the spectrum that is being reflected away."

"Someone wearing a snow-pale winter coat telegraphs a subtle visual message: “I do not need to take public transportation."

"Van Gogh’s sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just like their real-life counterparts did."

"Colors, therefore, should be understood as subjective cultural creations: you could no more meaningfully secure a precise universal definition for all the known shades than you could plot the coordinates of a dream."

"It seems blue, once considered the color of degenerates and barbarians, has conquered the world."