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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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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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The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it.
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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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Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.
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The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through these 'walls around art.
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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 force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.
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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 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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Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.
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Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.
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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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Each color lives by its mysterious life.
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I value those artists who embody the expression of their life.
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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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Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.
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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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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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When I was thirteen or fourteen I bought a paintbox with oil paints from money slowly saved up. The feeling I had at the time - or better - the experience of color coming slowly out of the tube - is with me to this day.
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