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.
Interpretation
Kandinsky suggests that colors evoke specific auditory sensations, linking visual and auditory experiences in a profound way.
In this quote, Wassily Kandinsky emphasizes the strong connection between colors and sounds, noting that people commonly associate certain colors with particular musical notes. For instance, bright yellow is likely to be associated with deeper tones while darker hues like 'dark lake' would resonate with higher pitches, illustrating the unique and personal nature of sensory perceptions in understanding art.
In practice
This quote can be used in a presentation about synesthesia in art.
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 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 man who steeps himself in the spiritual possibilities of his heart is a valuable helper in the building of the spiritual pyramid which will someday reach to heaven.
I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children.
What would they say if they knew_x000D_ I sit for two months_x000D_ on six lines of poetry?
What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.
The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.
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