The creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.
I was for years in the yellow period, you know.