Reading Color (from Josef Albers' Interaction of Color, p. 5)
[C]lear reading [of color] depends upon the recognition of context.
In musical compositions,
so long as we hear merely single tones, we do not hear music.
Hearing music depends on the recognition of the in-between of the tones,
of their placing and of their spacing.
In writing, a knowledge of spelling has nothing to do with an understanding of poetry.
Equally, a factual identification of colors within a given painting
has nothing to do with a sensitive seeing
nor with an understanding of the color action within a painting.
Our concern is the interaction of color; that is, seeing
what happens between colors.
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