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

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Mean, Color, Soul

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

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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 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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• 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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• Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

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  Art, Soul, Improvement

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

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

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  Artist, Expression, Values

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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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• Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.

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  Color, Silence, Black

  Magdalena Da̧browski, Wassily Kandinsky, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1995). “Kandinsky compositions”

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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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• The eyes are hammers.

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  Eye, Hammers

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

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  Canvas, Wonder, Empty

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

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

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  Spiritual, Color, Palette

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• The world is full of resonances. It constitutes a cosmos of things exerting a spiritual action. The dead matter is a living spirit.

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  Spiritual, Cosmos, World

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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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