“Every phenomenon can be experienced in two ways. These two ways are not arbitrary, but are bound up with the phenomenon – developing out of its nature and characteristics : Externally – or – inwardly.”

— Wassily Kandinsky

1920 - 1930, Point and line to plane, 1926

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Russian painter 1866–1944

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