Atlantic Unbound | Interviews - Philip Ball The range of available artistic color, he emphasizes, plays a far greater role in the choices an artist makes than is often recognized:
How is your desire for blue affected if you have just paid more for it than for the equivalent weight in gold? That yellow looks glorious, but what if its traces on your fingertips could poison you at your supper table? This orange tempts like distilled sunlight, but how do you know that it will not have faded to dirty brown by next year?