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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"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." — Wassily Kandinsky #creativityarts
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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. — Wassily Kandinsky
About Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky was a Artist from Russian Empire (1866–1944).
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This quote is attributed to Wassily Kandinsky, a Artist from Russian Empire.
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Wassily Kandinsky lived from 1866 – 1944.
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