Source: 1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Context: Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.
“Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.”
“Not iron, trust me,
the heart within my breast. I am all compassion.”
V. 190–191 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
On proper holding of the bow
Source: Life class: thoughts, exercises, reflections of an itinerant violinist, P.143
Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book VII, 29
The Goon Show, Season 7, Episode 25: "The Histories of Pliny the Elder" (28 March 1957)
as quoted by K.C. Cole, "A Theory of Everything" New York Times Magazine (1987) Oct.18
“Never trust a cat, anyway. All they’re good for is stringing tennis racquets.”
October 6 (p. 28)
A Night in the Lonesome October (1993)
“Only those who listen to music with the heart can experience the vibrations of love.”
Original: (it) Solo chi ascolta musica col cuore riesce a provare le vibrazioni dell'amore.
Source: prevale.net
V. The psychological working of Colour: Quoted in: Hajo Düchting (2000) Wassily Kandinsky, 1866-1944: A Revolution in Painting. p. 17
Alternative translation:
Colour is a means of exerting direct influence on the soul. Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hands which plays touching one key or another purposively to cause vibrations in the Soul; in: Anna Moszynska, Abstract Art, Thames and Hudson, 1990
Source: 1910 - 1915, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 1911
