An empty canvas is a living wonder — far lovelier than certain pictures. — 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
A world of colors on the palette remaining... wandering... on canvases still emerging. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
emotion that I experienced on first seeing the fresh paint come out of the tube... the impression of colours strewn over the… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
… lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and … stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has… — 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
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
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
In your works, you have realized what I, albeit in uncertain form, have so greatly longed for in music. The independent progress… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Empty canvas. In appearance - really empty, silent, indifferent. Stunned, almost. In effect - full of tensions, with thousand subdued voices, heavy… — 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
With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy… — 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
