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People of refinement have a disinclination to colours. This may be owing partly to a weakness of sight, partly to the uncertainty of taste, which readily takes refuge in absolute negation. Women now appear almost universally in white and men in black.
The female sex in youth is attached to rose-colour and sea-green, in age to violet and dark-green. The fair-haired prefer violet, as opposed to light yellow, the brunettes, blue, as opposed to yellow-red, and all on good grounds.
Theory of Colours - Goethe, #841 & 840
Halos may be divided into subjective and objective. The latter will be considered under physical colours; the first belong here. These are distinguished from the objective halos by the circumstance of their vanishing when the point of light which produces them on the retina is covered.
Theory of Colours - Goethe, #89
Hypochondriacs frequently see dark objects, such as threads, hair, spiders, flies, wasps. These appearences also exhibit themselves in the incipient hard cataract. Many see semi-transparent small tubes, forms like wings of insects, bubbles of water of various size, which fall slowly down, if the eye is raised: sometimes these congregate together so as to resemble the spawn of frogs; sometimes they appear as complete spheres, sometimes in the form of lenses.
Theory of Colours - Goethe, #119
