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Wassily Kandinsky
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Quotes by Wassily Kandinsky
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In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Thus we look upon the geometric point as the ultimate and most singular union of silence and speech.
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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.
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Repetition is a potent means of heightening the inner vibration and is, at the same time, a source of elementary rhythm which, in turn, is a means to the attainment of elementary harmony in every form of art.
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