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An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures.
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
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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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Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.
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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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The life of the spirit may be fairly represented in diagram as a large acute-angled triangle divided horizontally into unequal parts with the narrowest segment uppermost. The lower the segment the greater it is in breadth, depth, and area.
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In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposefully sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key.
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There is no must in art because art is free.
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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 joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values.
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A world of colors on the palette remaining... wandering... on canvases still emerging.
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