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May 3.
The echo: vocis imago.
Space and distance are represented in the mirror by the absence of rays that come from the plenum.
To investigate how perspective, distance, etc. are produced in a painting that is flat.
In waters, in our eyes, in our mirrors. We say of an object that “it paints itself there.” Follow this idea. That vision takes place through colors.
Our eyes, waters, and mirrors are portrait canvases on which objects faithfully represent themselves through the colors they send there; and not only are the objects’ features represented there, but also their mobility in action.
That in the arts, not only painting, but even simple drawing exists only through colors, as does writing. Nothing can be separate and distinct to our eyes except through two or more colors.
A body paints itself by the emission of its colors.
May 4.
... apt to reflect colors, and all colors, even the most imperceptible, I mean those we see but do not distinguish and to which we have given no name; for we have not named everything in any kind whatsoever.
If light enters into colors — which nevertheless become visible only when they are fixed, arrested, agglomerated, by a matter apt to produce this effect.
May 5.
It is certain that these rays of light are dyed with the foreign colors through which they pass. We see it in the effects of the striped, green or yellow taffetas placed at windows, on parasols, etc.
To explain reflections, and how much the sun’s rays increase them.
— Like the banyan fig tree whose branches, as soon as they touch the earth, take root there and rise again to form new trees.
May 12.
Thoughts born of the understanding; thoughts that only come to it or take shape in it.
Because then God would be alone. (He gives it an arrangement capable of eternity.)
Well! What are your explanations and your systems in physics, if not suppositions turned into assertions; and what, at bottom, are your suppositions but disguised likenesses and comparisons?
May 13.
Life enters it as a lighted candle placed in a lantern immediately brings light into it.