Brilliant, gorgeous, painted, gay,
Vivid, flaunting, tearaway,
Glowing, flaring, lurid, loud,
Screaming, shrieking, marching, proud,
Mellow, matching, deep and sombre,
Pastel, sober, dead and dull,
Constant, colourful, chromatic,
Party-coloured and prismatic,
Kaleidoscopic, dyed, illuminated,
Daub and scrumble, dip and dye,
High-keyed colour, colour lie.
Derek Jarman, Chroma - A Book of Colour, 1993
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