BLACK IS THE MOST ESSENTIAL OF ALL COLORS: A Designer’s Mantra

“Black is the most essential of all colors. Above all, if I may say so, it draws its excitement & vitality from deep and secret sources of health… One must admire black. Nothing can debauch it. It does not please the eye and awakens no sensuality. It is the agent of the spirit far more than the fine color of the palette or the prism.”

—JOSEPH SATTLER, The Graphic Work of Odilon Redon, 1969