Color is a power which directly influences the soul.
Interpretation
Color profoundly impacts our emotions and perceptions.
Wassily Kandinsky emphasizes the profound role that color plays in our lives, suggesting that it is not merely a visual element but a powerful force that can evoke deep emotional responses and influence our inner states. This perspective aligns with the understanding that colors can shape our feelings and experiences, affecting our mood and creativity.
In practice
In a presentation about the effects of color in design, this quote illustrates the significance of color choices.
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.
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.
I think it's important that everybody has access to music, and not just people who live in cities or who can afford to drive to the nearest city.
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.
What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ?_x000D_ George Bernard Shaw β I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.
The next step in sculpture is motion.
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