Kanye West Quotes

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

Because I'm a synesthete I see characters in colors and I perceive a W as green.

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.

I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.

What I can't tell with a photo I will tell with a painting, and what I can't tell with a painting I will tell with a video or text sometimes, et cetera.

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

I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.

Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.

See with your ears and hear with your eyes.

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

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.

He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

I paint when I cannot photograph.

I see colors like you hear jet planes.

Since I cannot sing, I paint.

Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting for the touch.

Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also a quilt.

Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.

I wanted to write and then I saw Pierrot and I understand that I could express myself in a more... Also probably, I had an intuition that if I was going to only write, I will stay in one room all the time and never go out. I felt that if I was going to make movies, I would have to communicate with people and it would be good for me.

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.

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.