“They say the eyes are the window to the soul.”
Wendy Mass A Mango-Shaped Space
Source: A Mango-Shaped Space
Source: Obsidian Butterfly
“They say the eyes are the window to the soul.”
Wendy Mass A Mango-Shaped Space
Source: A Mango-Shaped Space
“People say that eyes are windows to the soul.”
Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner
Source: The Kite Runner
Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) Russian painter
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
“One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.”
Nick Hornby book A Long Way Down
Source: A Long Way Down
“These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
First Week, Sixth Day. Compare: "Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes", William Shakespeare, Richard III, act v. sc. 3.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Nashville Skyline (1969), Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), IX The Practice of Painting
Context: The eye, which is called the window of the soul, is the principal means by which the central sense can most completely and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of nature; and the ear is the second, which acquires dignity by hearing of the things the eye has seen. If you, historians, or poets, or mathematicians had not seen things with your eyes you could not report of them in writing. And if you, O poet, tell a story with your pen, the painter with his brush can tell it more easily, with simpler completeness and less tedious to be understood. And if you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting. Now which is the worse defect? to be blind or dumb? Though the poet is as free as the painter in the invention of his fictions they are not so satisfactory to men as paintings; for, though poetry is able to describe forms, actions and places in words, the painter deals with the actual similitude of the forms, in order to represent them. Now tell me which is the nearer to the actual man: the name of man or the image of the man. The name of man differs in different countries, but his form is never changed but by death.