The Importance of Color in Language

There should be something that represents specifically something that everybody knows that represents something. That's not even how language works though, is it? No, because we just talked about this. If I go to Italy and someone's blah, blah,blah, Blaise... He's got the right sounds, but I don't know what the hell he's saying. But they do mean something. The experience of it is it draws out these kind of subterranean emotions as it's a color swatch that's painted over and over and over against. It's very rich and deep and dense. And when it's there, it's drawing out of you these kind of unconscious, bubbling

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