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21 " The artist is not born to a life of pleasure. He must not live idle; he has a hard work to perform, and one which often proves a cross to be borne. "
― Wassily Kandinsky , Concerning the Spiritual in Art
22 " Blue is the typical heavenly colour. The ultimate feeling it creates is one of rest. When it sinks to almost black, it echos grief that is hardly human. "
― Wassily Kandinsky
23 " The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle is actually as overwhelming in effect as the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo. "
24 " That is beautiful which springs from inner need, which springs from the soul "
25 " (...) an inner feeling called "Stimmung" by the germans and best translated as sentiment (it is to be regreted that this word, sentiment, which is meant to describe the poetical efforts of an artist living soul, has been misused and finally, ridiculed. Was there ever a great word that the masses did not try immediatly to cheapen and desecrate?) (...) "
26 " The artist must be blind to "recognized" and "unrecognized" form, deaf to the teachings and desires of his time. His open eyes must be directed to his inner life and his ears must be constantly attuned to the voice of inner necessity. "
27 " 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. Efforts to revive the art-principles of the past will at best produce an art that is still-born. It is impossible for us to live and feel, as did the ancient Greeks. "
28 " If you know the enemy and you know yourself, you need not fear the results of a hundred battles "
29 " Cada cuadro encierra misteriosamente toda una vida, toda una vida con muchos sufrimientos, dudas, horas de entusiasmo y de luz. ¿Hacia dónde clama el alma del artista, si también participó en la creación? ¿Qué proclama? «Enviar luz a las profundidades del corazón humano es la misión del artista», dice Schumann. «El pintor es un hombre que sabe dibujar y pintar todo», dice Tolstoi. "
30 " La belleza interior es la que se emplea por una necesidad interior imperiosa, renunciando a la belleza habitual. Naturalmente, parece fea al que no está acostumbrado a ella, ya que el ser humano en general tiende a lo externo y no está dispuesto a reconocer la necesidad interior (¡especialmente hoy!) "
31 " La intuición con la que nace el artistas es el talento evangélico que no debe enterrar. El artista que no utiliza sus dotes es un esclavo perezoso. "
32 " 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. "
― Wassily Kandinsky , Point and Line to Plane
33 " Kandinsky did not see his divorced parents as hostile figures of authority. They were merely two very different people who were devoted to him and who, in their own way, fostered his sensitivity. But particularly in his mother he saw the best qualities - "grave, austere beauty, well-bred simplicity, boundless energy. "
34 " Thus we look upon the geometric point as the ultimate and most singular union of silence and speech. "
35 " to stand in front of some of his drawings or pictures gives a keener and more spiritual pleasure than any other kind of painting. "
36 " One hesitates to mention Derain, for his beginnings, full of vitality and promise, have given place to a dreary compromise with Cubism, without visible future, and above all without humour. But there is no better example of the development of synthetic symbolism than his first book of woodcuts. "
37 " The onlooker turns from the artist who has higher ideals and who cannot see his life purpose in an art without aims. "
38 " It has been said above that art is the child of its age. Such an art can only create an artistic feeling which is already clearly felt. This art, which has no power for the future, which is only a child of the age and cannot become a mother of the future, is a barren art. She is transitory and to all intent dies the moment the atmosphere alters which nourished her. "
39 " the relationships in art are not necessarily ones of outward form, but are founded on inner sympathy of meaning. "
40 " 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. "