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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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Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim.
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Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.
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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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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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The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.
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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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That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.
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Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.
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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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Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. Otherwise one would profane one's own powerful solution.
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The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.
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Today is the great day of one of the revelations of this world. The interrelationships of these individual realms were illumined as by a flash of lightning they burst unexpected, frightening, and joyous out of the darkness. Never were they so strongly tied together and never so sharply divided.
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The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
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The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
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All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.
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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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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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Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard.
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There is no must in art because art is free.
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