From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2008-04-19:</p>
"Alexander Scriabin [Russian composer] was synaesthetic, which meant his brain made connections between things that the majority of people do not believe to be fundamentally connected. Synaesthesia can take several forms (people can see colors in pain, or in letters or the alphabet); Scriabin 'saw' music and 'heard' colors. The Finnish composer Jean Sibelius had the same gift. 'What color would you like your stove, Mr. Sibelius?' he was once asked. 'F Major,' he said vaguely. So it was duly painted green." -- Victoria Finlay, from Color: A Natural History of the Palette
(submitted to the mailing list by Kathleen Magone)
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