Chromesthesia Quotes

The way it works for me is my sight and sound senses are combined. Every sound I associate with a color and every color I associate with a sound... The way I see things is constant streamers across the room, bouncing off from every touch and every sound. Over the years, I've learned what color palates I love most.

I wouldn't call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I'll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I'm listening to music and think, 'Oh, there's not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.'

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

There was one man who was interested in the color of music, the connection between light and music, and that was Einstein.

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 have synesthesia, which is when you see music in color.

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

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

The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble.