Color transmits and translates emotion.
Interpretation
Color has the power to convey feelings and thoughts.
Wassily Kandinsky's statement emphasizes the profound connection between color and emotion, suggesting that the colors we see can evoke specific feelings and communicate complex messages beyond words. This reflects the importance of visual elements in art and how they can influence our mood and perception.
In practice
Using this quote in an art class to discuss color theory.
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.
Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly.
I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.
From the very beginning, I was very interested just in light, and art seemed to be a way to work with it.
The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.
Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.
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