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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
Wassily Wassiljewitsch Kandinsky
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Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky
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… lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and … stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to “walk about” into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.
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The eyes are hammers.
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Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.
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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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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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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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Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.
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The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul, so that it can weigh colours in its own scale and thus become a determinant in artistic creation.
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Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.
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The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less powerful than the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo.
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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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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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