Each color lives by its mysterious life.
Interpretation
Colors have their own unique essence and emotional significance in art.
Kandinsky suggests that each color has a distinct identity and resonates with different emotions and experiences. In the realm of art, colors are not merely visual components; they embody a depth of meaning and influence our perception and feelings in profound ways.
In practice
In an art critique discussing Kandinsky's techniques.
The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.
The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.
With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy the "quality of painting" (as one enjoys a pasty). But hungry souls go hungry away. The vulgar herd stroll through the rooms and pronounce the pictures "nice" or "splendid." Those who could speak have said nothing, those who could hear have heard nothing.
The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble.
The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.
All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.
It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.
It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work. It's none of their business that you had to learn. Let them think you were born that way.
Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue
A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.
I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.
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