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Showing posts with label Wassily Kandinsky Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wassily Kandinsky Quotes. Show all posts
Wassily Kandinsky Quotes
"When [blue] sinks almost to black, it echoes a grief that is hardly human. When it rises towards white ... its appeal to men grows weaker and more distant." -- Wassily Kandinsky Quotes (in his Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 1911)
Wassily Kandinsky Quotes
"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." - Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky Quotes
"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." - Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky Quotes
"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 princples of art of past centures can lead only to the production of stillborn works." - Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky Quotes
"All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity." - Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky Quotes
"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." - Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky Quotes
"There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression." - Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky Quotes
"Colour is the key. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically." - Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky Quotes
"The more frightening the world becomes... the more art becomes abstract." - Wassily Kandinsky
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