What is color?
Human beings can distinguish about ten million variations within the visible light spectrum. When our eyes see the whole range of visible light together, they read it as "white." When some of the wavelengths are missing, they see it as "colored." But colors don't really exist, except that our minds create them as an interpretation of vibrations that are happening around us. Everything in the universe is shimmering and vibrating and constantly changing. Every substance in the universe absorbs or reflects light.
From Color: A Natural History of the Palette, by Victoria Finlay
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