In both
of his best - known books — Concerning the
Spiritual in Art (1912) and Point and Line to
Plane (1926)-- he displays a remarkable ability to reconcile the redemptive power
of art's «inner pulsations,» meant to be experienced «with all one's senses» and exacting diagrams
of the formal effect
of different
colors, shapes and lines, each
of which he felt had a distinct sound.