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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether...

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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...

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Color is a power which directly influences the soul.

The artist must be blind to "recognized" and "unrecognized" form, deaf to the teachings and desires ...

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

To those that are not accustomed to it the inner beauty appears as ugliness because humanity in gene...

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Concerning the Spiritual in Art

(...) an inner feeling called "Stimmung" by the germans and best translated as sentiment (it is to b...

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Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the...

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Concerning the Spiritual in Art

A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to exp...

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Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (...

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Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Each color lives by its mysterious life.

Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A c...

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Wassily Kandinsky

Artist

Born: 1866-12-16

Died: 1944-12-13

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (December 4 or 16, 1866 - December 13, 1944) — was a Russian painter and art theorist and one of the leading figures in Blaue Reiter. One of the most important 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract art works.More