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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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• 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.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Prayer, Paint, Made

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

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Spiritual, Color, Palette

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

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Soul, Secret, Faces

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• The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  People, Obscurity, Matter

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

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Color, Knives, Canvas

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

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Mother, Art, Time

  1912 Concerning the Spiritual in Art.

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• Music is the ultimate teacher.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Teacher, Music Is, Ultimate

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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 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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• 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.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Powerful, Impact, Circles

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Expression, Order, Analysis

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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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• Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Color, Soul, Influence

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

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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.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Color, Soul, Body

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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.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Color, Sides, Ends

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

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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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• 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.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Two, Arbitrary, Way

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

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• Emotion that I experienced on first seeing the fresh paint come out of the tube.. ..the impression of colours strewn over the palette: of colours - alive, waiting, as yet unseen and hidden in their little tubes...

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Waiting, Experience, Unseen

  "Kandinsky" by Frank Whitford, Paul Hamlyn Ltd, London, 1967.

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• In your works, you have realized what I, albeit in uncertain form, have so greatly longed for in music. The independent progress through their own destinies, the independent life of the individual voices in your compositions, is exactly what I am trying to find in my painting.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Independent, Destiny, Voice

  "Schonberg and Kandinsky: An Historic Encounter" by Klaus Kropfinger, edited by Konrad Boehmer; published by Routledge (imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informal company), (p. 9), 2003.

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