Nature rarer uses yellow
Than another hue;
Saves she all of that for sunsets, —
Prodigal of blue,
Spending scarlet like a woman,
Yellow she affords
Only scantly and selectly,
Like a lover's words.
—Emily Dickinson, “Nature rarer uses yellow”
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Kees Veenman
We are all familiar with the world of color, but can we learn to experience color more intensely? Can we learn to penetrate colors in a more profound way? This book takes the reader into the activity of the colors of the spectrum by investigating them meditatively. Using numerous examples and experiments, Kees Veenman guides the reader toward the dynamics and essence of colors, describing his research into the nature of colors along with fresh questions that help us penetrate the world of colors ever more deeply.
Color Meditation is for those who want to appreciate the phenomena and wonders—the being—of color more deeply and fully understand how color can enrich one’s soul and spiritual activity.
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From the Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner
The Arts and Their Mission
8 lectures, Oslo and Dornach, May 18 – June 9, 1923 (CW 276)
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For the most part, modern people do not paint; they imitate figures with a kind of drawing, then color the surface. But colored surfaces are not painting because they are not born out of color and light and darkness.
We must not misunderstand things. If somebody goes wild and just lays on colors side by side in the belief that this is what I call “overcoming drawing,” he is mistaken. By “overcoming drawing” I do not mean to do away with drawing, but to let it rise out of the colors, be born from the colors. Colors will yield the drawing; one simply has to know how to live in colors. Living so, an artist develops an ability—while disregarding the rest of the world—to bring forth works of art out of color itself.
—Rudolf Steiner, from a lecture given June 9, 1923, in The Arts and Their Mission (CW 276)
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