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The sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences.
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
Vasili Vasilevich Kandinsky
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Vasily Vasil'yevich Kandinsky
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Vasilij Vasil'evic Kandinskij
Vasily Kandinsky
Vasilij Kandinskij
Vasily. Kandinsky
Vasilij Vasil'evič Kandinskij
Wassili Kandinsky
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky
Vasili Vasileevich Kandinsky
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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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The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.
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The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.
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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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Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
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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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Every man who steeps himself in the spiritual possibilities of his heart is a valuable helper in the building of the spiritual pyramid which will someday reach to heaven.
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Empty canvas. In appearance - really empty, silent, indifferent. Stunned, almost. In effect - full of tensions, with thousand subdued voices, heavy with expectations. A little frightened because it may be violated
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Each period of a civilisation creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn. To try and revive the principles of art of past centuries can lead only to the production of stillborn works.
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An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures.
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The artist is not a 'Sunday child' for whom everything immediately succeeds. He does not have the right to live without duty. The task that is assigned to him is painful, it is a heavy cross for him to bear.
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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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Color transmits and translates emotion.
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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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The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in equilibrium. Of the three primary forms, it points most clearly to the fourth dimension.
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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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It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false and erases it.
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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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That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.
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The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
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