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The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
Wassily Kandinsky
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Wassily Kandinsky
Age: 77 †
Born: 1866
Born: January 1
Died: 1944
Died: January 1
Art Theorist
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
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Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street... Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks.
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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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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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