A Quote by Wassily Kandinsky

I let myself go. I thought little of the houses and trees, but applied colour stripes and spots to the canva... Within me sounded the memory of early evening in Moscow, before my eyes was the strong, colour-saturated scale of the Munich light and atmosphere, which thundered deeply in the shadows.

Wassily Kandinsky

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Applied Atmosphere Before Colour Deeply Early Evening Eyes Go Houses Light Little Me Memory Moscow Munich Myself Saturated Scale Shadows Spots Stripes Strong Thought Trees Which Within

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Wassily Kandinsky
Russian - Artist
December 4, 1866 - December 13, 1944

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