Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.

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

Color transmits and translates emotion.

The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age.

The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.

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.

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