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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

  Art, Real, World

  Hajo Düchting, Wassily Kandinsky (1993). “Wassily Kandinsky, 1866-1944: A Revolution in Painting”, Taschen

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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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  Past, Games, Evil

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.15, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be capable of weighing colors in balance.

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  Eye, Color, Soul

  Wassily Kandinsky, Kenneth Clement Lindsay, Peter Vergo (1994). “Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art”

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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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  Years, Soul, Despair

  Wassily Kandinsky (1970). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular”

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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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  Art, Goal, Mastery

  Wassily Kandinsky (1914). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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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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  Spiritual, Blue, Yellow

  Wassily Kandinsky (1970). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular”

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• The sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences.

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  Spiritual, Color, Palette

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• Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.

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  Mother, Art, Children

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.15, Sheba Blake Publishing

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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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  Prayer, Paint, Made

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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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  Way Forward, Spirit, Abstract

  1912 'On the Question of Form', in Blaue Reiter Almanac.

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• I value those artists who embody the expression of their life.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Artist, Expression, Values

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• With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy the "quality of painting" (as one enjoys a pasty). But hungry souls go hungry away. The vulgar herd stroll through the rooms and pronounce the pictures "nice" or "splendid." Those who could speak have said nothing, those who could hear have heard nothing.

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  Nice, Eye, Skills

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• An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Canvas, Wonder, Empty

  "The Painter's Object" by Myfanwy Evans Piper, (p. 53), 1937.

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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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  Eye, Color, Piano

  Quoted in K C Lindsay and P Vergo (eds and trans) Kandinsky: Complete Writings on Art (1982).

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• Empty canvas. In appearance - really empty, silent, indifferent. Stunned, almost. In effect - full of tensions, with thousand subdued voices, heavy with expectations. A little frightened because it may be violated

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  Voice, Expectations, May

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• In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow.

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  Self, Color, Class

  Wassily Kandinsky (1970). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular”

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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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  Stars, Flower, Moon

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• The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.

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  Health, Exercise, Body

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.54, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Almost without exception, blue refers to the domain of abstraction and immateriality.

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  Blue, Domain, Exception

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• Objects damage pictures.

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  Damage, Objects

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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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  Powerful, Soul, Doubt

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• The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being. Nor is its existence casual and inconsequent, but it has a definite and purposeful strength, alike in its material and spiritual life.

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  Spiritual, Art, Secret

  Wassily Kandinsky (1914). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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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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  Mean, Eye, Artist

  Wassily Kandinsky, Kenneth Clement Lindsay, Peter Vergo (1994). “Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art”

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• The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.

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  Artist, Keys, Hands

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• A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so yellow has shades, which can be expressed by various instruments.

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  Color, Yellow, Giving

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