Wassily Kandinsky Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.”
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“There is no must in art because art is free.”
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“The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.”
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“The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.”
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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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“Each color lives by its mysterious life.”
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“Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential.”
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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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“Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.”
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“Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.”
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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.”
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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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“To create a work of art is to create the world.”
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“An empty canvas is a living wonder — far lovelier than certain pictures.”
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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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“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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“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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“The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.”
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“The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.”
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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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“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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“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.”
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“That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.”
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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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“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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“Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.”
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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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