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An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

~Wassily Kandinsky

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The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

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A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.

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Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.

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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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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.

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The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.

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How can German music not be represented by an article?

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Artist

Born: December 4th, 1866

Died: December 13th, 1944

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