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

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Artist, Expression, Values

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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 joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values.

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  Joy, Triumph, Inevitable

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

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• Color transmits and translates emotion.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Color, Emotion, Translate

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

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Artist, Keys, Hands

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• Every phenomenon can be experienced in two ways. These two ways are not arbitrary, but are bound up with the phenomenon – developing out of its nature and characteristics : Externally – or – inwardly.

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  Two, Arbitrary, Way

  Wassily Kandinsky, Hilla Rebay (1947). “Point and Line to Plane”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.

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  Mean, Color, Soul

  "Abstract Art" by Anna Moszynska, Thames and Hudson, 1990.

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• Each color lives by its mysterious life.

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  Color, Mysterious Life, Mysterious

  Ankriktip, Abelia Serotina, Wassily Kandinsky (2016). “Wassily Kandinsky Artworks”, p.2, Book and Magazine

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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.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Mean, Eye, Artist

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

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

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Blue, Domain, Exception

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• Color cannot stand alone.

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  Color, Stand Alone

  Wassily Kandinsky (1955). “Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912”

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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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  Sacred, Sin, Justified

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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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• The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work.

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  Function, Organized, Composition

  Wassily Kandinsky (1982). “Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art: 1922-1943”

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• Objects damage pictures.

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  Damage, Objects

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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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  Believe, Artist, Firsts

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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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  Spiritual, Heart, Men

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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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  Color, Knives, Canvas

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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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• In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.

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  Color, Sides, Ends

  Wassily Kandinsky (2012). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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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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• It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false and erases it.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Forgotten, Should

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

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• Music is the ultimate teacher.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Teacher, Music Is, Ultimate

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