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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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