The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values. — 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
Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The life of the spirit may be fairly represented in diagram as a large acute-angled triangle divided horizontally into unequal parts with… — 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
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
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
“(...) 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
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
The world is full of resonances. It constitutes a cosmos of things exerting a spiritual action. The dead matter is a living… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
An empty canvas is a living wonder — far lovelier than certain pictures. — 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
The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values. — 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
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
