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We associate the same or similar colors much more strongly than we associate the same or similar shapes.

One interesting aspect of this picture is how our eye is drawn into the white triangle—and stuck there.

Diagonal shapes are dynamic because they imply motion or tension.

There seems to be some sort of gravitational effect here: the larger the mass of color, the more our attention is drawn to it.

Pictures that affect us strongly use structural principles based on the way we have to react in the real world in order to survive.

The larger an object is in a picture, the stronger it feels.

equanimity,

Curved shapes embrace us and protect us.

Vertical structures are monuments to the kinetic energy of the past and the future, and to the potential energy of the present.