Charles Bukowski Quotes

A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.

The whole body reacts to color. If you were to walk into an all-neon-pink room, it would be difficult not to react. I think it is a unified, human thing to feel color with everything. It is like standing next to a bass speaker plugged into your eyeballs.

Color is an intense experience on its own.

I am a believer that color affects people's moods.

I know colors like some people know a melody. And the tunes of my favorite musicians energizes me when I work.

Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.

Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.

I am the kind of person that is drawn to colors against my will.

The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.

Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.

I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation

Whether the psychological effect of color is direct...or whether it is the outcome of association, is open to question. The soul being one with the body, it may well be possible that a psychological tremor generates corresponding one through association.

Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.

The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.

All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.

Sometimes when reading aloud to my husband, I'll start crying. It completely stuns me. As if the words in my body and on the page - in relation to each other - are cocooned against my own feelings about what I'm writing until they're loosed in the air and become their own. Then I realize what I may or may not have done.

The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music.

Music, I think, he makes me feel like music

Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.

A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres.

It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent.

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

Many people do not distinguish between something that happens to them and their reaction to it. Yet it isn't the event or situation that holds the emotional charge; it's our beliefs that create our response.

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.

The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections.