Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lasted was with his "exigent mistress," painting. Wherever he looked-into an overcast sky, at a news item about a Turkish massacre, into the fragile face of his friend Chopin, or even into his own mirror-he saw things that addressed themselves "to the most intimate part of the soul." He was an expert draftsman who told his students, "If you are not clever enough to do a sketch of a man throwing himself out of a window during the time it takes him to fall from the fourth floor to the ground, you will never be able...
...color that "it represents the most rigorous application of scientific principles interpreted through a personality." Matisse and Van Gogh had Delacroix reproductions on their walls, and Kandinsky was in debt to Delacroix when he began formulating his theory on the correlation of color and the states of the human soul...
...window into the heart. "Oh!" he exclaimed. "The smile of a dying man! The look in the mother's eyes! The embraces of despair! Precious realm of painting! That silent power that speaks at first only to the eyes and then seizes and captivates every faculty of the soul...
...soul delighteth in the song of the heart; yea, the song of the righteous is a prayer unto me, and it shall be answered with a blessing upon their heads...
...conversion is, in fact, a complete surrender of human reason: "The will to assert ourselves and hold our own has been displaced by a willingness to close our mouths and be as nothing in the floods and waterspouts of God. The time for tension in the soul is over, and that of happy relaxation, of calm deep breathing, of an eternal present with no discordant future to be anxious about, has arrived...