"You see that he has not really painted it white, but blue, and violet, and yellow."
"But it's a white cap, you said."
"Yes, thaat's what is so strange. It's painted many colors, but when you look at it, you think it's white."
"Tile painting is much simpler," my fater grumbled. "You use blue and that's all. Adark blue for the outlines, alight blue for the shadows. Blue is blue."
And a tile is a tile, I thought, and nothing like his paintings. I wanted him to understand that white was not simply white.-90쪽