Quotes About Sensory

We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

When it is moving on luxurious wings, The soul is lost in pleasant smotherings.

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don't want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.

But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.

Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

See the music, hear the dance.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

I get uncomfortable in large groups of people and loud music.

Not to deny that it is a thinking people's music, but when I listen to music if I ever catch myself thinking, I'm in trouble--I know something is wrong.

In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

Close your eyes and let music set you free.

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.

The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.

It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.

Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.