The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble.
Interpretation
Kandinsky suggests that colors elicit specific sounds, emphasizing the strong connection between visual art and auditory experiences.
In this quote, Wassily Kandinsky explores the profound relationship between color and sound, proposing that certain colors can evoke specific musical notes or qualities. He emphasizes that the vividness and emotional resonance of colors are so distinct that it would be almost inconceivable for someone to misassociate a bright color like yellow with low, base sounds or darker hues with higher treble notes, highlighting the unique language of art that transcends conventional sensory boundaries.
In practice
In a presentation about synesthesia, to illustrate how people perceive colors and sounds together.
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.
I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.
I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.
Designing is not a profession but an attitude. Design has many connotations. It is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function. It is the intergration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space. Thinking in relationships.
The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring.
I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I am no painter. I can neither by signs nor by pantomime express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer; but I can by tones, for I am a musician.
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
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