• It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.

    Maxfield Parrish: It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.
    Letter to F.W Weber in 1950. "Maxfield Parrish". Book by Coy L. Ludwig, 1973.