Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.

Vasily Kandinsky
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This quote describes the beauty of color. It describes the way that the color of an object can be interpreted as a symbol for what goes on inside someone’s head. This is because we take colors seriously, and we see them as symbolic representations of other things. We take colors very seriously, and we take people’s emotions and expressions even more seriously. The point is that colors and emotions and expressions and actions and every other thing that we see are all connected in some mysterious way, just like notes on a piano are connected to one another by being played together in harmony.

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