“Color gives joy, it can also drive a person crazy. It can heal, in the polychromatic hospital. It is a formidable raw material, as indispensable to life as water or fire. . . . It can be dosed . . . in infinite degrees, beginning with the nuance and ending with the explosion.”

—Fernand L’ger, Painting and Reality, Transition, no. 25, 1936.