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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
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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 observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.
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Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard.
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Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.
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Everything starts from a dot.
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The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.
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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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Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences the world in this way: it sees light, is attracted by it, wants to grasp it, burns its finger in the process, and thus learns fear and respect for the flame.
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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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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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I value those artists who embody the expression of their life.
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An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in reality, is crammed with thousands of undertone tensions and full of expectancy. Slightly apprehensive lest it should be outraged.
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Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.
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The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.
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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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The life of the spirit may be fairly represented in diagram as a large acute-angled triangle divided horizontally into unequal parts with the narrowest segment uppermost. The lower the segment the greater it is in breadth, depth, and area.
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I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could.
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Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.
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