"Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture."

-- Wassily Kandinsky

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“No good to paint in the head - what happens is what happens when you put the paint down - you can only hope that you are alert - ready - to see. What joy itÂ is for paint to become a thing - a being. Believe in this miracle - it is your only hope. To will this transformation is not possible. Only aÂ slow maturation can prepare the hand and eye to become quicker than ever. Ideas about art don't matter. They collapse anyway in front of the painting.”
“It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.”
“It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.”
“The subject of men and women is absolutely fraught with sex, which is as it should be.”
“The worst thing a girl could do on a date is fart louder than me.”
“Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.”
“Brilliant, inspiring . . . if you are on a pursuit of self-mastery, make time to read this!”
“The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are not trained to withhold judgment in the absence of evidence, they will be led astray by cocksure prophets, and it is likely that their leaders will be either ignorant fanatics or dishonest charlatans. To endure uncertainty is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues.”

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