Cross-Modal Perception Quotes

Music must be seen, and dance must be heard

Every time I hear sounds, I see pictures. Then, I start getting ideas. It just drives me crazy

See with your ears and hear with your eyes.

One of the more distant concerns is with the visual interpretation of the music. I find it fascinating but I don't always particularly get involved with it.

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

I could smell colors, I could feel sounds.

I see colors like you hear jet planes.

Perfumes, colours and sounds echo one another.

I don't think there's any more synesthetic medium than film.

It's not like I see colours. It's just, for me, an incredibly strong association between music and colour.

I didn't know the term 'synesthesia' until I was working on 'Cruel Summer.' Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine: through painting, through this seven-screen Surround Vision film we shot in Qatar, through all these things.

You ever tasted a smell? It's a very strange feeling. I've done it quite a few times and it still freaks me out.

One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one.

We can translate word and letter into color - [Arthur] Rimbaud stated that in his color vowels, words quote "words" can be read in silent color.

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

I associate colors with music, or music with colors.

I'm really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there's sound and visuals. When I think about that I get stimulated and excited. It's a feeling that you can't label with words.

I was 13 years old at music school talking to my teacher. I can't quite remember what it was I was trying to describe, but I do remember my music teacher saying to me, 'Do you have synesthesia?' In hindsight, it seems a little presumptuous of her to think a little boy in Essex would know what synesthesia was.

Yeah, I associate every sound with a color and vice versa.

I always see colors when I listen to music. It's difficult to explain, but when I hear the music I think about gold, blood rushing.

He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.

Seeing sound, the high order stuff that's not audible still affects how everything else behaves. There might be a visual metaphor for that somewhere.

I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.

I can actually see the sound in my head. I can actually see it... But each sound is different so this one has that sparkle, there is a sparkle to the sound.

I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.