The sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
A world of colors on the palette remaining... wandering... on canvases still emerging. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow... — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men this restfulness has a… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
As a picture painted in yellow always radiates spiritual warmth, or as one in blue has apparently a cooling effect, so green… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass… — 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
When I was thirteen or fourteen I bought a paintbox with oil paints from money slowly saved up. The feeling I had… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Whether the psychological effect of color is direct...or whether it is the outcome of association, is open to question. The soul being… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
“Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings.… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
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 Image
Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration. — 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
