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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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There
is
all
the
difference
in
the
world
between
the
person
who
appreciates
color
and
the
person
who
"likes
colors."
The
child,
playing
with
his
broken
toys
and
bits
of
gay
china
and
glass,
the
American
Indian
with
his
gorgeous
blankets
and
baskets
and
beads--all
these
primitive
minds
enjoy
the
combination
of
vivid
tones,
but
they
have
no
more
feeling
for
color
than
a
blind
man.
The
appreciation
of
color
is
a
subtle
and
intellectual
quality.
Sparrow,
the
Englishman
who
has
written
so
many
books
on
housefurnishing,
says:
"Colors
are
like
musical
notes
and
chords,
while
color
is
a
pleasing
result
of
their
artistic
use
in
a
combined
way.
So
colors
are
means
to
an
end,
while
color
is
the
end
itself.
The
first
are
tools,
while
the
other
is
a
distinctive
harmony
in
art
composed
of
many
lines
and
shades."
We
are
aware
that
some
people
are
"color-blind,"
but
we
do
not
take
the
trouble
to
ascertain
whether
the
majority
of
people
see
colors
crudely.
I
suppose
there
are
as
many
color-blind
people
as
there
are
people
who
have
a
deep
feeling
for
color,
and
the
great
masses
of
people
in
between,
while
they
know
colors
one
from
another,
have
no
appreciation
of
hue.
Just
as
surely,
there
are
some
people
who
cannot
tell
one
tune
from
another
and
some
people
who
have
a
deep
and
passionate
feeling
for
music,
while
the
rest--the
great
majority
of
people--can
follow
a
tune
and
sing
a
hymn,
but
they
can
go
no
deeper
into
music
than
that.
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