Wassily Kandinsky Quotes

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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
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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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.

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The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age.

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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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The word composition moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a 'composition'. This word affected me like a prayer.

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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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In a composition in which corporeal elements are more or less superfluous, they can be more or less omitted and replaced by purely abstract forms, or by corporeal forms that have been completed abstracted.

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But, as well as the body, the spirit fortifies itself and develops itself by the exercise. As a neglected body which becomes weak and finally impotent, the spirit becomes weaker. The innate feeling of the artist is like the talent of the Gospel which must not be buried. The artist which lets its gifts unemployed is the lazy servant.

Wassily Kandinsky