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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.

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
Wassily Wassiljewitsch Kandinsky
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