Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.

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.

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.

Colour is a power which 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.

A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.