Colour is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it To work with colour is to become acutely aware of the insufficiency of language and theory – which is both disturbing and pleasurable.

Gary Hume: British Pavilion, XLVIII Venice Biennale, 13 June-7 Novermer 1999 (ed. 1999)