Ciurlionis tried to achieve a visual touch in his music and he felt the musical origin in his painting, but he never tried to illustrate any of these forms of art: he transfered the basic structural musical elements into painting by giving them a visual form, imitating the effect of rhythm, variation, modulation and repetition of themes in spatial dimensions.
From the book "XX a. lietuvių dailės istorija"
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