Wassily Kandinsky

The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.

— Wassily Kandinsky

In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.

— Wassily Kandinsky

An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in reality, is…

— Wassily Kandinsky

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

— Wassily Kandinsky

The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of…

— Wassily Kandinsky

All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.

— Wassily Kandinsky

The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass…

— Wassily Kandinsky

Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.

— Wassily Kandinsky

The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard.

— Wassily Kandinsky

A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy…

— Wassily Kandinsky

Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object…

— Wassily Kandinsky

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have…

— Wassily Kandinsky

Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of…

— Wassily Kandinsky

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul, so that it can weigh colours in its own scale…

— Wassily Kandinsky

Today is the great day of one of the revelations of this world. The interrelationships of these individual realms were illumined as…

— Wassily Kandinsky

The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in…

— Wassily Kandinsky

The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through…

— Wassily Kandinsky

It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false…

— Wassily Kandinsky

It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be…

— Wassily Kandinsky

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

— Wassily Kandinsky