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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
Russian SFSR
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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 world is full of resonances. It constitutes a cosmos of things exerting a spiritual action. The dead matter is a living spirit.
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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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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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The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.
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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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In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.
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The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being. Nor is its existence casual and inconsequent, but it has a definite and purposeful strength, alike in its material and spiritual life.
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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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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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Color cannot stand alone.
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
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With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.
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The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through these 'walls around art.
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Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.
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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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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.
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Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.
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Everything starts from a dot.
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An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in reality, is crammed with thousands of undertone tensions and full of expectancy. Slightly apprehensive lest it should be outraged.
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