Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings. — 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
“That is beautiful which springs from inner need, which springs from the soul” — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul. — 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 nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it… — 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
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
Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of… — 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
Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering… — 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
“(...) 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
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
“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
Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. Otherwise one would profane one's own powerful solution. — 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
