On the Spiritual in Art

Here is a clip from Kandinsky’s Concerning the Spiritual in Art; from the chapter Spiritual Revolution (page 10):

The spiritual triangle moves slowly onwards and upwards. Today one of the largest of the lower segments has reached the point of using the first battle cry of the materialist creed. The dwellers in this segment group themselves round various banners in religion. They call themselves Jews, Catholics, Protestants, etc. But they are really atheists, and this a few either of the bolder or the narrowest openly avow. “Heaven is empty,” “God is dead.” In politics these people are democrats and republicans. The fear, horror and hatred which yesterday they felt for those political creeds they now direct against anarchism, of which they know nothing but its much dreaded name.

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