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Wassily Kandinsky

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

  • Sophie123has quoted4 years ago
    Living himself a complicated and comparatively subtle life, his work will give to those observers capable of feeling them lofty emotions beyond the reach of words.
  • Sophie123has quoted4 years ago
    Shapeless emotions such as fear, joy, grief, etc., which belonged to this time of effort, will no longer greatly attract the artist. He will endeavour to awake subtler emotions, as yet unnamed.
  • Sophie123has quoted4 years ago
    An example of this today is our sympathy, our spiritual relationship, with the Primitives. Like ourselves, these artists sought to express in their work only internal truths, renouncing in consequence all consideration of external form.
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  • Sophie123has quoted4 years ago
    there is a similarity of inner tendency in the whole moral and spiritual atmosphere, a similarity of ideals, at first closely pursued but later lost to sight, a similarity in the inner feeling of any one period to that of another, the logical result will be a revival of the external forms which served to express those inner feelings in an earlier age.
  • Sophie123has quoted4 years ago
    There is, however, in art another kind of external similarity which is founded on a fundamental truth. When
  • Sophie123has quoted4 years ago
    the same way those who strive to follow the Greek methods in sculpture achieve only a similarity of form, the work remaining soulless for all time.
  • Sophie123has quoted4 years ago
    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.
  • Sophie123has quoted4 years ago
    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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