Artspeaking topic
It is strange that we split colors into warm and cool: red is 'warm', blue is 'cold'. Yet the hottest part of a flame is blue, and so is ice. The temperature of a color exists not in physics but in our heads. Why can we 'feel' a color without touching it?
— color temperature perception and synesthesia
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