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“When I was thirteen or fourteen I bought a paintbox with oil paints from money slowly saved up. The feeling I had at the time - or better - the experience of color coming slowly out of the tube - is with me to this day.”

Quote by Wassily Kandinsky

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Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky, born on December 16, 1866, and died on December 13, 1944, was a prominent artist from Russia. He is considered one of the pioneers of abstract art and his works have had a profound impact on 20th-century art. more

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“In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.”

Whole Inspiration Hours Doubt Painting Whole Life Enthusiasm Torture

Book:Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular

Source: Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular

“The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less powerful than the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo.”

Powerful Power Effects Produce Impact Fingers Circles Touching Adam Angle Triangles

Book:Kandinsky Watercolours: Exhibition May 23-June 28, 1970, Art Gallery of Ontario

Source: Kandinsky Watercolours: Exhibition May 23-June 28, 1970, Art Gallery of Ontario

“I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.”

Literature Fun Very Good Outlines

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“The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer and filled me with awe.”

Made Prayer Aim Moved Filled Paint Made It Awe Affected Composition

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

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

World Stills Color Wander Emerging Palette

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim.”

Years Stills Soul Purpose Born Despair Aim Awakening Materialism Unbelief

Book:Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular

Source: Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular

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

World Art Real Reality Next Surface Abstract Real World New World Abstract Art

Book:Wassily Kandinsky, 1866-1944: A Revolution in Painting

Source: Wassily Kandinsky, 1866-1944: A Revolution in Painting

“Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard.”

Soul Shows Faces Secret Heard Silent Revelations Show Me

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“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.”

World Today Together Individual Darkness This World Realms Revelations Unexpected Divided Tied Flash Frightening Lightning Joyous Great Day

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“Barriers are continually being made out of... new values which have overturned the barriers of the past. Thus one sees that it is not basically the new value that is of prime importance, but rather the spirit that is revealed in this value, as well as the freedom necessary for this revelation.”

Wells Made Past Spirit Values Importance Revelations Barriers Prime

Author:Wassily Kandinsky