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.
Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.
The sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences.
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard.
The world is full of resonances. It constitutes a cosmos of things exerting a spiritual action. The dead matter is a living spirit.
Music is the ultimate teacher.
I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but every 'object' as well.
Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration.
The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less powerful than the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo.
All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.
A world of colors on the palette remaining... wandering... on canvases still emerging.
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.
There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression.
Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.
The artist is not a 'Sunday child' for whom everything immediately succeeds. He does not have the right to live without duty. The task that is assigned to him is painful, it is a heavy cross for him to bear.
With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.
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.
The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it.
In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.
Barriers are continually being made out of... new values which have overturned the barriers of the past. Thus one sees that it is not basically the new value that is of prime importance, but rather the spirit that is revealed in this value, as well as the freedom necessary for this revelation.
Every phenomenon can be experienced in two ways. These two ways are not arbitrary, but are bound up with the phenomenon – developing out of its nature and characteristics : Externally – or – inwardly.
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.
An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in reality, is crammed with thousands of undertone tensions and full of expectancy. Slightly apprehensive lest it should be outraged.
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.
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