The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Each period of a civilisation creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn. To try… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena,… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The artist is not a 'Sunday child' for whom everything immediately succeeds. He does not have the right to live without duty.… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being.… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
There is, however, in art another kind of external similarity which is founded on a fundamental truth. When there is a similarity… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
“Art becomes so specialized as to be comprehensible only to artists, and they complain bitterly of public indifference to their work. Competition… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
“(...) an inner feeling called "Stimmung" by the germans and best translated as sentiment (it is to be regreted that this word,… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul, so that it can weigh colours in its own scale… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share
Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share
In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share
An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in reality, is crammed with… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share
The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share
All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share
The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share
Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share
The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share
Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share
Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new,… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share
