"Color is the first language we ever learn—the warm gold of a morning, the steady blue of a deep lake, the passionate red that flares in our cheeks. We feel it long before we have the words to describe it. Yet, somewhere along the way, we are taught to fear it. To believe it is a set of rules to be memorized, a test we are destined to fail. We outsource our intuition to trend forecasts and sterile swatches, silencing our inner knowing.

I believe we must reclaim this. Not as decorators, but as curators of our own energy."

— Christopher Thompkins, from the forthcoming book When No One is Looking: Curating a Colorful Life