Each color lives by its mysterious life.
— Wassily Kandinsky
The artist is not born to a life of pleasure. He must not live idle; he has a hard work to perform, and one which often proves a cross to be borne.
— Wassily Kandinsky
The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.
— Wassily Kandinsky
The sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences.
— Wassily Kandinsky
Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim.
— Wassily Kandinsky
Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.
— Wassily Kandinsky
Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. Otherwise one would profane one's own powerful solution.
— Wassily Kandinsky
Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.
— Wassily Kandinsky
Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration.
— Wassily Kandinsky
Color cannot stand alone.
— Wassily Kandinsky
Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.
— Wassily Kandinsky
The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble.
— Wassily Kandinsky
Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.
— Wassily Kandinsky
Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.
— Wassily Kandinsky
The eyes are hammers.
— Wassily Kandinsky
Kandinsky in Munich uttered the well known words: 'Everything is permitted!' In 1961; we still live by this heritage, which in truth is inexhaustible.
— Michel Seuphor
Music is the ultimate teacher.
— Wassily Kandinsky
The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.
— Wassily Kandinsky
Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.
— 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
To create a work of art is to create the world.
— Wassily Kandinsky
As a picture painted in yellow always radiates spiritual warmth, or as one in blue has apparently a cooling effect, so green is only boring. — Wassily Kandinsky
The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning. — Wassily Kandinsky
That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul. — Wassily Kandinsky
There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression. — Wassily Kandinsky
How can German music not be represented by an article? — Wassily Kandinsky
![Kandinsky's Quotes By Neville Weston: [Kandinsky] arrived, as they say, 'with snow on](http://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/kandinskys-quotes-by-neville-weston-97543.jpg "Kandinsky's Quotes By Neville Weston: [Kandinsky] arrived, as they say, 'with snow on")
[Kandinsky] arrived, as they say, 'with snow on his boots', and it never really melted. — Neville Weston
The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit. — Wassily Kandinsky
Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard. — Wassily Kandinsky
Color transmits and translates emotion. — Wassily Kandinsky
The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul. — Wassily Kandinsky
All day long I add up columns of figures and make everything balanced. I come home. I sit down. I look at a Kandinsky and it's wonderful. — Solomon R. Guggenheim
Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body. — Wassily Kandinsky
Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings. — 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
You get Kandinsky, a bad mother, all them pick-up-sticks pictures ... — Donald Barthelme
I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends. — Josef Albers
I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but every 'object' as well. — Wassily Kandinsky
In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration. — Wassily Kandinsky
Colour is a power which directly influences the soul. — Wassily Kandinsky
Almost without exception, blue refers to the domain of abstraction and immateriality. — Wassily Kandinsky
The onlooker turns from the artist who has higher ideals and who cannot see his life purpose in an art without aims. — Wassily Kandinsky
The world is full of resonances. It constitutes a cosmos of things exerting a spiritual action. The dead matter is a living spirit. — Wassily Kandinsky
It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false and erases it. — Wassily Kandinsky
The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values. — Wassily Kandinsky
The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it. — Wassily Kandinsky
The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects. — Wassily Kandinsky
It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be capable of weighing colors in balance ... — Wassily Kandinsky
There is no must in art because art is free. — Wassily Kandinsky
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view. — Wassily Kandinsky
A world of colors on the palette remaining ... wandering ... on canvases still emerging. — Wassily Kandinsky
An empty canvas is a living wonder ... far lovelier than certain pictures. — Wassily Kandinsky
The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work. — Wassily Kandinsky
I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could ... — Wassily Kandinsky
The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically. — Wassily Kandinsky
The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through these 'walls around art. — Wassily Kandinsky
Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul. — Wassily Kandinsky
Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child. — Wassily Kandinsky
I value those artists who embody the expression of their life. — Wassily Kandinsky
Everything starts from a dot. — Wassily Kandinsky
The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer and filled me with awe. — 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
Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture. — Wassily Kandinsky
