"Like the butterfly collector who takes beautiful, living things only to chloroform them and mount them, I want to catch colours, match them according to pigment or dye type, and stick a pin in them; literally nail them down, as if by classifying and naming a colour I am killing it. Pass me that lump hammer while I hold down this devil of a cobalt blue. And yet everyone I know who is truly fascinated by colour, who spends a significant portion of their life devoted to it, confesses to this same complicated relationship: on one hand an addiction; on the other an urge to control, either by painting with it, handling it or simply collecting it."
Quite wonderful article by Kevin McCloud, design historian and colour obsessive.
The Guardian: Life's obsession with colours
Completely coincindentally I found myself in the Building Design Centre on Store Street, London, earlier the same day this article appeared, staring at perspex samples on a wall-mounted lightbox, organised by colour.
