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Wassily Kandinsky Inspirational Quotes (92)

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The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble.
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An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures.
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Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.
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All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.
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Music is the ultimate teacher.
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Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.
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Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.
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Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.
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The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.
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With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.
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Whether the psychological effect of color is direct...or whether it is the outcome of association, is open to question. The soul being one with the body, it may well be possible that a psychological tremor generates corresponding one through association.
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The sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences.
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Color transmits and translates emotion.
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Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men this restfulness has a beneficial effect, but after a time it becomes tedious.
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Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.
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Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.
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The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work.
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The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through these 'walls around art.
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Emotion that I experienced on first seeing the fresh paint come out of the tube.. ..the impression of colours strewn over the palette: of colours - alive, waiting, as yet unseen and hidden in their little tubes...
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Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration.
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Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.
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The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.
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In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the natural consequences of an aimless, materialist art.
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Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.
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