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" An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures. "
Pictures
Art
Canvas
" 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. "
Today
Music
Life
" Color is a power which directly influences the soul. "
Color
Power
Soul
" Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul. "
Color
Artist
Hand
" Each color lives by its mysterious life. "
Mysterious
Color
Lives
" Everything starts from a dot. "
Everything
Dot
Starts
" Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated. "
Culture
Child
Age
" How can German music not be represented by an article? "
German
Music
Article
" Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want? "
Yourself
World
Work
" Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view. "
World
Our
Matter
" The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul. "
Eye
Must
Only
" The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural... The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white. "
Blue
White
Stillness
" The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip. "
Soul
Game
Evil
" There is no must in art because art is free. "
Art
Free
Must
" The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble. "
Lake
Bright
Colors
" The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended. "
Just
Like
Spirit
" To create a work of art is to create the world. "
Work
World
Art
" 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. "
Music
Soul
Artist
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