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.
Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor.
That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.
I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.
In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.
When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.
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