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What does it mean?
The artist experiences music as vivid colors and intense lines, suggesting a synesthetic connection between sound and visual art.
In plain terms
Music made the artist see wild colors and lines in their mind.
What can you take from it?
Artistic inspiration can come from sensory crossover experiences.

Where it applies

  • listening to music
  • creative inspiration

Putting it to work

  • abstract painting
  • sensory art

Questions to consider

  • How does music affect your art?
  • Can you see sound?

Another view

Synesthetic experiences are not universal among artists.

More from Wassily Kandinsky

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  2. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammer, the soul is the piano with the strings. (Comparing Painting and Music)

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  3. As has been said...it is impossible to make clear the aims of a work of art by means of words.

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