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There is no must in art because art is free.
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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Each color lives by its mysterious life.
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
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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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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 artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.
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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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When I was thirteen or fourteen I bought a paintbox with oil paints from money slowly saved up. The feeling I had at the time - or better - the experience of color coming slowly out of the tube - is with me to this day.
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A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.
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A world of colors on the palette remaining... wandering... on canvases still emerging.
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It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be capable of weighing colors in balance.
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