(...) an inner feeling called "Stimmung" by the germans and best translated as sentiment (it is to be regreted that this word, sentiment, which is meant to describe the poetical efforts of an artist living soul, has been misused and finally, ridiculed. Was there ever a great word that the masses did not try immediatly to cheapen and desecrate?) (...)

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Wassily Kandinsky was a 19th-century Russian painter and art theorist. Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist active in Germany during the late Belle Époque and Interwar eras. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western art. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Art — Creativity, expression, and the role of art in society
  • Soul — The inner self, consciousness, and spiritual essence

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