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The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in equilibrium. Of the three primary forms, it points most clearly to the fourth dimension.
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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The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values.
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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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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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Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard.
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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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An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures.
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Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.
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Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.
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Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential.
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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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As a picture painted in yellow always radiates spiritual warmth, or as one in blue has apparently a cooling effect, so green is only boring.
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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 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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There is no must in art because art is free.
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The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.
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Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street... Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks.
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Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration.
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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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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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