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I value those artists who embody the expression of their life.
Wassily Kandinsky
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Wassily Kandinsky
Age: 77 †
Born: 1866
Born: January 1
Died: 1944
Died: January 1
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The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values.
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The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer and filled me with awe.
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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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The sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences.
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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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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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Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.
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Each period of a civilisation creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn. To try and revive the principles of art of past centuries can lead only to the production of stillborn works.
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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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It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false and erases it.
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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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Whether the psychological effect of color is direct...or whether it is the outcome of association, is open to question. The soul being one with the body, it may well be possible that a psychological tremor generates corresponding one through association.
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Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.
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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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Objects damage pictures.
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Barriers are continually being made out of... new values which have overturned the barriers of the past. Thus one sees that it is not basically the new value that is of prime importance, but rather the spirit that is revealed in this value, as well as the freedom necessary for this revelation.
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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.
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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 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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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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