» “As I look around the room I am working in, man-made colour shouts back at me from every surface – books, cushions, a rug on the floor, a coffee cup, a box of staples – bright blues, reds, yellows, greens. There is as much color here as in any tropical forest. Yet while almost every color in the forest would be meaningful, here in my study almost nothing is. Colour anarchy has taken over.” Do you find colors found in nature to be more meaningful than the colors found in the museum?

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“As I look around the room I am working in, man-made colour shouts back at me from every surface – books, cushions, a rug on the floor, a coffee cup, a box of staples – bright blues, reds, yellows, greens. There is as much color here as in any tropical forest. Yet while almost every color in the forest would be meaningful, here in my study almost nothing is. Colour anarchy has taken over.” Do you find colors found in nature to be more meaningful than the colors found in the museum?

— Nicholas Humphries, Psychologist

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mrbailey2:

Are colors in nature or a museum more meaningful?? Hmm. Man is nature….so what are the colors created by man?