All means are sacred when they are dictated by inner necessity. All means are reprehensible when they do not spring from the fountain of inner necess… - Wassily Kandinsky

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All means are sacred when they are dictated by inner necessity. All means are reprehensible when they do not spring from the fountain of inner necessity... 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.

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About Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (December 4 or 16, 1866 - December 13, 1944) — was a Russian painter and art theorist and one of the leading figures in Blaue Reiter. One of the most important 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract art works.

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Alternative Names: Wassily Wassiljewitsch Kandinsky Vasili Vasilevich Kandinsky Vasilii Vasilevich Kandinskii Vasily Vasil'yevich Kandinsky Vasilij Kandinski Vasilij Vasil'evic Kandinskij Vasily Kandinsky Vasilij Kandinskij Vasily. Kandinsky Vasilij Vasil'evič Kandinskij Wassili Kandinsky Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky Vasili Vasileevich Kandinsky Vasilĭi Vasilʹevich Kandinskĭi Vasilij Vasilijevitch Kandynski Wassily Kandinski Basile W. Kandinsky Wahsili Kang-ting-ssu-chi Vassily Kandinsky Kandinsky w. kandinsky Vasili Vasil'evich Kandinski
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The disharmoniousness (one might say, the negative rhythm) of the individual forms was that which primarily drew me, attracted me, during the period to which this watercolor belongs. The so-called rhythmic always comes on its own because in general the person himself is rhythmically built. Thus at least on the surface, the rhythmic is innate in people. Children, 'primitive' peoples, and laymen draw rhythmically..
In that period my soul was especially enchanted by the not-fitting-together of drawn and painterly form. Line serves the plane in that the former bounds the latter. And it makes my heart race in those cases when the independent plane springs over the confining line: line and plane are not in tune! It was this that produced a strong inner emotion in me, the inner 'ah!

Painting is a thundering conflict of different worlds, which in and out of the battle with one another are intended to create the new world, which is called the world of art. Each work arises technically in a way similar to that in which the cosmos arose – through catastrophes, which from the chaotic roaring of the instruments finally create a symphony, the music of the spheres. The creation of the work is the creation of worlds.

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