Henry David Thoreau wrote on blue:
“We love to see any part of the earth tinged with blue, cerulean, colour of the sky, a celestial colour. The blue of my eye sympathises with the blue in the snow. Blue is light seen through a veil”.
Wassily Kandinsky wrote on blue:
“The power of profound meaning is found in blue. Inclination of blue to depth is so strong, inner appeal is stronger when it’s shade is deeper. Blue is a typical heavenly colour. The ultimate feeling it creates is one of rest, super-natural rest, not earthly contentment of green. The way to super-natural is through the natural.
When it sinks almost to black, echoes a grief hardly human. When it rises towards white, it’s appeal to men grows weaker, more distant. In music light blue is like a flute, a darker blue a cello, a still darker a thunderous double bass, darkest blue of all, an organ”.
Terry Tempest Williams wrote on blue:
“Blue is bunting, indigo and quick. Blue is jay, it’s chatter like jazz. Blue is grosbeak is bluebird, is blackbird turned sky. The Chisos mountains at dusk are blue. Blue is ghost-like. Twilight. Deep border blue. Once is the blue moon where panther’s dance. Twice is the blue belly of lizards flashing. Blue waves are heat waves, dervishes in sand. Blue is the long song of storm clouds gathering with rain.”
Rebecca Solnit wrote on blue:
“The world is blue at edges, in depths. Blue is light that got lost. Light at blue end of spectrum doesn’t travel whole distance from sun. Disperses among molecules of air, scatters in water. Water is colourless, shallow water appears to be colour of whatever lies underneath, deep water is full of this scattered light. Purer the water the deeper the blue.
Sky is blue for the same reason. But blue at horizon, blue of land that seems to be dissolving into sky is a deeper, dreamier, melancholy blue. This light doesn’t touch us, doesn’t travel the whole distance, gets lost, gives beauty of the world, much of which is in the colour blue”.
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