Color Vision Deficiency

Famous quotes containing the words color, vision and/or deficiency:

    “The intellect,—that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    ““The god has not yet answered to our pity
    For the black vision and tangle in her brains,
    Nor is there knowing soever in the city
    Of the red histories that throbbed in her blue veins.””
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)