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The eyes are hammers.
Objects damage pictures.
Color cannot stand alone.
Everything starts from a dot.
Music is the ultimate teacher.
Color transmits and translates emotion.
Each color lives by its mysterious life.
There is no must in art because art is free.
To create a work of art is to create the world.
Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.
Color is a power which directly influences the soul.
Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.
How can German music not be represented by an article?
Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.
Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.
The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
I value those artists who embody the expression of their life.
The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.
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.
An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures.
An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.
The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values.
Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.
That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.
Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.
Almost without exception, blue refers to the domain of abstraction and immateriality.
A world of colors on the palette remaining... wandering... on canvases still emerging.
The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work.
Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.
The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.
The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.
Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. Otherwise one would profane one's own powerful solution.
In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow.
Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard.
Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.
Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.
Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration.
The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it.
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.
Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.
The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.
In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.
All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.
In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.
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.
The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.
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.
It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false and erases it.