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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.
Wassily Kandinsky
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Wassily Kandinsky
Age: 77 †
Born: 1866
Born: January 1
Died: 1944
Died: January 1
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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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Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.
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