Wassily Kandinsky - Form Quotes

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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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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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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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In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.

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The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in equilibrium. Of the three primary forms, it points most clearly to the fourth dimension.

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