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Color Quotes by Wassily Kandinsky
- Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration.
- Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.
- Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.
- I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could...
- Color transmits and translates emotion.
- Color cannot stand alone.
- Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.
- The sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences.
- Whether the psychological effect of color is direct...or whether it is the outcome of association, is open to question. The soul being one with the…
- Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity…
- A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so yellow has shades,…
- 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…
- Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.
- Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.
- It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be capable of weighing…
- Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men this restfulness has a beneficial effect, but…
- Each color lives by its mysterious life.
- In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow...
- In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.
- When I was thirteen or fourteen I bought a paintbox with oil paints from money slowly saved up. The feeling I had at the time…
- A world of colors on the palette remaining... wandering... on canvases still emerging.
- Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching…
- Color is a power which directly influences the soul.
More Color Quotes
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius
- You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in… — Richard Bach
- An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. — Honore de Balzac
- Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. — Honore de Balzac
- Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number. — Dave Barry
- For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness. — Lynda Barry
- It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties. — Lance Bass
- To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by… — Charles Baudelaire
- Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an… — Glenn Beck
- I like bold colors but usually wear black. — Mayim Bialik