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Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.

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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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Color
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Hammers
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