some thoughts from Wassily Kandinsky on color

“On Color:

If you let your eye stray over a palette of colors, you experience two things. In the first place you experience a purely physical effect, namely the eye itself is enchanted by the beauty and other qualities of color. You experience satisfaction and delight, like a gourmet savoring a delicacy..

On the other hand as the physical coldness of ice, upon penetrating more deeply, arouses more complex feelings, and indeed a whole chain of psychological experiences, so may also the superficial impression of color develop into an experience”