Wassily Kandinsky Quotes
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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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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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Music is the ultimate teacher.
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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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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 sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences.
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The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values.
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Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
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Every man who steeps himself in the spiritual possibilities of his heart is a valuable helper in the building of the spiritual pyramid which will someday reach to heaven.
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Everything starts from a dot.
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Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in 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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Color transmits and translates emotion.
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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.
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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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Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.
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The life of the spirit may be fairly represented in diagram as a large acute-angled triangle divided horizontally into unequal parts with the narrowest segment uppermost. The lower the segment the greater it is in breadth, depth, and area.
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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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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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Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.
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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 every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.
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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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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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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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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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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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Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. Otherwise one would profane one's own powerful solution.
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… lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and … stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to “walk about” into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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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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