Wassily Kandinsky Quotes About Soul
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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.
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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.
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Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.
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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.
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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.
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Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. Otherwise one would profane one's own powerful solution.
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That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.
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The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.
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With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy the "quality of painting" (as one enjoys a pasty). But hungry souls go hungry away. The vulgar herd stroll through the rooms and pronounce the pictures "nice" or "splendid." Those who could speak have said nothing, those who could hear have heard nothing.
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Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.
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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.
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Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.
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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.
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Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street... Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks.
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Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.
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It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be capable of weighing colors in balance.
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Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.
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Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard.
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The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
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Whether the psychological effect of color is direct...or whether it is the outcome of association, is open to question. The soul being one with the body, it may well be possible that a psychological tremor generates corresponding one through association.
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