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

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Self, Color, Class

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

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• Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration.

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  Spiritual, Color, Important

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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.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Believe, Artist, Firsts

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

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Function, Organized, Composition

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

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• Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard.

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  Soul, Secret, Faces

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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.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Color, Yellow, Giving

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• Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

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  Mother, Art, Time

  1912 Concerning the Spiritual in Art.

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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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• A world of colors on the palette remaining... wandering... on canvases still emerging.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Color, World, Wander

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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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  People, Obscurity, Matter

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

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• The artist is not a 'Sunday child' for whom everything immediately succeeds. He does not have the right to live without duty. The task that is assigned to him is painful, it is a heavy cross for him to bear.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Children, Sunday, Artist

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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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  Inspiring, Art, Expression

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Kandinsky”, p.59, Parkstone International

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• Music is the ultimate teacher.

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  Teacher, Music Is, Ultimate

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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.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Past, Spirit, Revelations

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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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  Views, World, Matter

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

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• Whether the psychological effect of color is direct...or whether it is the outcome of association, is open to question. The soul being one with the body, it may well be possible that a psychological tremor generates corresponding one through association.

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  Color, Soul, Body

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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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• An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in reality, is crammed with thousands of undertone tensions and full of expectancy. Slightly apprehensive lest it should be outraged.

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  Reality, Dull, Facts

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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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• The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less powerful than the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo.

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  Powerful, Impact, Circles

  Wassily Kandinsky (1970). “Kandinsky Watercolours: Exhibition May 23-June 28, 1970, Art Gallery of Ontario”

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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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  Art, Wall, Pain

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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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• 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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• 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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• In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the natural consequences of an aimless, materialist art.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Jealousy, Art, Hatred

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

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