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Wassily Kandinsky Biography

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Канди́нский, tr. Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky) (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist.

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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.

Evil, Games, Materialism, Past, Soul, Universe

In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposefully sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key.

Artist, Eye, Hammer, Mean, Sets, Vibrating

A world of colors on the palette remaining. . . wandering. . . on canvases still emerging.

Color, Emerging, Wander, Wandering, World

The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through these 'walls around art.

Art, Effort, Pain, Tangled, Wall, Walls

The world is full of resonances. It constitutes a cosmos of things exerting a spiritual action. The dead matter is a living spirit.

Constitutes, Cosmos, Full, Spiritual, World

Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.

Color, Eye, Piano, Strings

The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values.

Continual, Inevitable, Joy, Triumph, Values

Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.

Black, Close, Color, Like, Silence

Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.

Collision, Downfall, Epoch, Matter, Views, World

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.

Blue, Deeper, Desire, Man, Men, White

Today is the great day of one of the revelations of this world. The interrelationships of these individual realms were illumined as by a flash of lightning; they burst unexpected, frightening, and joyous out of the darkness. Never were they so strongly tied together and never so sharply divided.

Darkness, Great Day, Individual, Together, World

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul, so that it can weigh colours in its own scale and thus become a determinant in artistic creation.

Artist, Colours, Eye, Scale, Soul, Train

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.

Art, Creation, Detaches, Real, Spiritual, True

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.

Art, Cases, Children, Culture, Mother, Period

The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble.

Bright, Color, Dark, Definite, Hard, Lakes

Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences the world in this way: it sees light, is attracted by it, wants to grasp it, burns its finger in the process, and thus learns fear and respect for the flame.

Children, Grasp, Light, Sees, Spiritual, Things

The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.

Abstract, Propels, Spirit, Upward, Way Forward

The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it.

Extent, Matter, Obscurity, People, Perceiving, Spirit

Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.

Art, Nothing, Real, Reality, World

Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.

Color, Direct, Exert, Mean, Soul

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