Author of quotes: Wassily Kandinsky



This human addiction to the petrified form is terrible, even tragic. Just yesterday the public was ready to devour the man who revealed this new form. And today this form u003d an unshakable law for all times. And this is tragic because it shows time and time again that people almost always cling to the external. I thought about this for a long time and even found some consolation. But sometimes my patience is ready to burst.
Quote Explanation: From a letter to Arnold Schoenberg. 06 February 1911
№ 460344   Added Viker 10-01-2024 / 13:46
If an artist has an outer and inner view of nature, nature rewards him by giving him inspiration.
№ 459947   Added MegaMozg 10-12-2023 / 03:24
What could be considered a point on a completely blank background, which becomes a plane when near to the main plane there is a very thin line.
№ 388458   Added MegaMozg 10-03-2020 / 23:40
Wash was a saucer - not washed and the dirt clods sitting! What the hell? He looked at it - and the flowers are drawn...
Quote Explanation: Vologda notebook, 1889.
№ 295395   Added MegaMozg 26-07-2017 / 18:54
External, not internal born, stillborn.
№ 265391   Added MegaMozg 19-01-2017 / 10:37
Absolute objectivity is unattainable.
№ 220724   Added MegaMozg 16-01-2017 / 10:49
The distinction between nature and painting is not the basic laws, and in material subjected to these laws.
№ 220723   Added MegaMozg 16-01-2017 / 10:49
The artist must have something to say, as his task - not the possession of form and the fixture this form to content.
№ 159245   Added MegaMozg 11-01-2017 / 17:31
Form, even if it is completely abstract and similar geometric has its own inner sound is the spiritual entity with qualities that are identical with this form.
№ 158946   Added MegaMozg 11-01-2017 / 17:17
Closer together not minds, and hearts Odnozvuchno.
№ 136509   Added MegaMozg 09-01-2017 / 16:43
Voluptuous penetrate into the plate, the needle acts with certainty and a higher degree of determination. Initially, the point arises as the negative, through short, sharp injections of the plate. Needle, a pointed metal - cold. Plate, smooth copper, heat. The color of tight layer is applied to the entire plate and washed off so that the point simply and naturally remained lying on the bright bosom of the plane. The push press is similar to the violence. The plate cuts into the paper. The paper penetrates the smallest recesses and draws in color. A painful process, leading to the complete fusion of color with the paper. So there is a small black dot - a picturesque element.
№ 128247   Added MegaMozg 08-01-2017 / 19:04