The Essential Goethe Quotes

“Colour itself is a degree of darkness σκιερόν; hence Kircher is perfectly right in calling it lumen opacatum. As it is allied to shadow, so it combines readily with it; it appears to us readily in and by means of shadow the moment a suggesting cause presents itself.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Essential Works of Goethe (Annotated): Enriched Edition. The Greatest Works: Sorrows of Young Werther, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Journeyman ... Sorcerer's Apprentice, Theory of Colours…