Wassily Kandinsky Color Quotations

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...

Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.

A world of colors on the palette remaining... wandering... on canvases still emerging.

Color transmits and translates emotion.

A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so yellow has shades, which can be expressed by various instruments.

Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.

Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration.

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 - or better - the experience of color coming slowly out of the tube - is with me to this day.

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 body, it may well be possible that a psychological tremor generates corresponding one through association.

The sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences.

Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.

In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.

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 for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential.

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...

Each color lives by its mysterious life.

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 colors in balance...

Color cannot stand alone.

Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.

In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow...