“In childhood [a man] loves bright colours and perceives them in their pure form—yellow, red, green, blue. This . . . is characteristic for all children, both in the town and in the country: their consciousness seems to be on the same level. The only difference we may note is that town children more often use pure colour from the darker end of the spectrum than village children.”

—Kazimir Malevich, (1878-1935); quoted in Color in Art, by John Gage, 2006.