“words carry colors and sounds into the flesh”
Source: Delta of Venus
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Anaïs Nin 278
writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903–1977Related quotes

“Sounds are indeed like colors, and my hunger for a truer palette of colors grows day to day.”
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“I carry a lot of scars. I like the way that sounds. I carry aof scars.”

“.. colors are my notes for fashioning sounds and chords with and against one another.”
as quoted in Expressionism, a German intuition, 1905-1920, Neugroschel, Joachim; Vogt, Paul; Keller, Horst; Urban, Martin; Dube, Wolf Dieter; (transl. Joachim Neugroschel); publisher: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 1980, p. 35
3 short quotes in which Nolde expresses the evocative power of color, which became with his garden and flower paintings from 1906-07 the chief medium of his art.
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“Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.”
Source: The Sound and the Fury

“The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World