Wassily Kandinsky Quotes
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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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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…
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Everything starts from a dot.
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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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Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.
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Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.
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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 transmits and translates emotion.
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Color cannot stand alone.
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Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.
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The sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences.
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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…
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The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.
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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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Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.
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Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.
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Music is the ultimate teacher.
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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.
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Each period of a civilisation creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn. To try and revive the…
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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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