Wassily Kandinsky and the Circle

I was alerted to this by a Milwaukee area artist, Todd Fillingham via twitter @reply.

"I also learned of Kandinsky’s growing love affair with the circle. The circle, he wrote, is “the most modest form, but asserts itself unconditionally.” It is “simultaneously stable and unstable,” “loud and soft,” “a single tension that carries countless tensions within it.” Kandinsky loved the circle so much that it finally supplanted in his visual imagination the primacy long claimed by an emblem of his Russian boyhood, the horse."

-from The Circular Logic of the Universe, by Natalie Angier

I feel kinship.