...the heart expanded and cheered, a glow seems at once to breathe towards us." (<*) Of blue he says : " This colour has a peculiar and almost indescribable...kind of contradiction between excitement and repose. "... Rooms which are hung with pure blue appear in some degree larger, but at the same time empty and...

...towards us." 1 Of blue he says : " This colour has a peculiar and almost indescribable effect upon the eye. As a hue it is powerful, but it is on the...kind of contradiction between excitement and repose. " Rooms which are hung with pure blue appear in some degree larger, but at the same time empty and...

...strange and almost indescribable effect upon the eye. It is an energy, but one negative in character ; and in its highest purity is as it were a stimulating negation. It produces on the beholder a contradictory feeling of excitement and repose.' The dictum contains...

...sun is blue has been claimed by some occult writers. Goethe, in his Theory of Colours, says of blue: This colour has a peculiar and almost indescribable...kind of contradiction between excitement and repose. As the upper sky and distant mountains apear blue, so a blue surface seems to retire from us. But as...

...principle of darkness with it." Goethe conceived of two qualities in the emotional character of blue. Blue has "a peculiar and almost indescribable effect on...hue it is powerful, but it is on the negative side," it is a stimulating negation, "a kind of contradiction of excitement and repose Blue gives us the impression...

...and thence emblematical of intelligence and divinity. Goethe says in his "Theory of Color" — "Blue has a peculiar and almost indescribable effect on...side, and in its highest purity is, as it were, a stimulation negation. Its appearance, then, is a kind of contradiction between excitement and repose....