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Wassily Kandinsky Quotes
Russian
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Artist
December 4, 1866 - December 13, 1944
Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
Wassily Kandinsky
Eyes
Work
Music
You
About
Answer
Ask
Ears
Hitherto
Just
Lend
More
Open
Open Your Eyes
Painting
Stop
Thinking
Unknown
Walk
Want
Whether
World
Yes
Your
Yourself
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.
Wassily Kandinsky
Eyes
Soul
Artist
Keyboard
Cause
Color
Hand
Harmonies
Key
Piano
Plays
Strings
Touching
Vibrations
Another
Many
The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
Wassily Kandinsky
Soul
Artist
Only
Eye
Train
Also
His
Must
How can German music not be represented by an article?
Wassily Kandinsky
Music
How
Article
German
There is no must in art because art is free.
Wassily Kandinsky
Art
Free
Must
Because
Everything starts from a dot.
Wassily Kandinsky
Everything
Dot
Starts
An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.
Wassily Kandinsky
Art
Living
Wonder
Empty
Pictures
Canvas
Certain
Far
Than
To create a work of art is to create the world.
Wassily Kandinsky
Work
Art
World
Create
Color is a power which directly influences the soul.
Wassily Kandinsky
Power
Soul
Color
Which
Directly
Influences
The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
Wassily Kandinsky
Life
Soul
Past
Game
Awakening
Evil
Grip
Holds
Materialism
Nightmare
Turned
Universe
Useless
Still
Which
The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural... The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.
Wassily Kandinsky
Man
Blue
White
More
Awakening
Becomes
Brighter
Calls
Deeper
Desire
Finally
Infinite
Loses
Pure
Silent
Sound
Stillness
Strongly
Supernatural
Towards
Turns
Him
Until
Each color lives by its mysterious life.
Wassily Kandinsky
Life
Mysterious
Color
Each
Lives
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
Wassily Kandinsky
Time
World
Matter
View
Collision
Downfall
Epoch
Material
Material World
Purely
Spirit
Tragic
World View
Between
Our
The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble.
Wassily Kandinsky
Colors
Yellow
Who
Dark
Base
Bright
Definite
Express
Lake
Notes
Sound
Anyone
Find
Hard
Would
Would-Be
Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.
Wassily Kandinsky
Mother
Work
Art
Age
Cases
Culture
Emotions
Follows
Period
Produces
Repeated
Child
Each
Every
Many
Never
Our
Own
Which
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.
Wassily Kandinsky
Art
Music
Soul
Artist
Centuries
Devoted
Exceptions
Expression
Itself
Musical
Natural
Natural Phenomena
Phenomena
Reproduction
Sound
Been
Few
Has-Been
Rather
Some
Which
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.
Wassily Kandinsky
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.
Wassily Kandinsky
Body
Like
Spirit
Exercise
Developed
Finally
Frequent
Grows
Neglected
Strengthened
Weaker
Just
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