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The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.
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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Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.
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Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. Otherwise one would profane one's own powerful solution.
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I let myself go. I thought little of the houses and trees, but applied colour stripes and spots to the canva... Within me sounded the memory of early evening in Moscow, before my eyes was the strong, colour-saturated scale of the Munich light and atmosphere, which thundered deeply in the shadows.
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I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but every 'object' as well.
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