Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit. — 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 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 spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it. — 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
Barriers are continually being made out of... new values which have overturned the barriers of the past. Thus one sees that it… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Every man who steeps himself in the spiritual possibilities of his heart is a valuable helper in the building of the spiritual… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and… — 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
