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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.
Wassily Kandinsky
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Wassily Kandinsky
Age: 77 †
Born: 1866
Born: January 1
Died: 1944
Died: January 1
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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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Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.
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In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow.
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The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it.
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An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures.
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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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