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Quote by Wassily Kandinsky
Must we not then renounce the object altogether, throw it to the winds and instead lay bare the purely abstract?
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The speaker asks whether the object should be abandoned completely and replaced with attention to what is purely abstract. “Throw it to the winds” suggests discarding it entirely, while “lay bare” suggests examining the abstract without the object’s concrete form. The question presents this as a choice rather than asserting that it must be done.
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