Beautiful colors

What is color???????
I can define color as a human sensation.
We are in a world where color dominates our lives, from reading signs on the road to seeing if fruit is ripe to eat. It affects our moods - blue is calming - red can make us tense. We use and experience color everyday in our lives without even appreciating it.

Color has been investigated and used for more than 2000 years. Throughout history, different civilizations have experimented and learned more about color. We are still learning today about how color affects us and its importance in our lives.

Some of the early studies and theories about light were done by Aristotle. He discovered that by mixing two colors, a third is produced.

Someone said, "A picture of many colors proclaims images of many thoughts." Colors are more than a combination of red and blue or yellow and black. They are non-verbal communication.

"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions" - Pablo Picaso
Sometimes colors create a physical reaction and at other times it is a cultural reaction. Red has been shown to raise blood pressure. In the U.S. white is for weddings, in some Eastern cultures, white is the color for mourning and funerals.

"Mere colors, unspoiled by meaning and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways," - Oscar Wilde