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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
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
Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.
— Wassily Kandinsky
The eyes are hammers.
— Wassily Kandinsky
Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.
— Wassily Kandinsky
To create a work of art is to create the world.
— Wassily Kandinsky
The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values.
— 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
In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.
— 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
Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.
— Wassily Kandinsky
Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.
— 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
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 their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.
— Wassily Kandinsky
Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.
— Wassily Kandinsky
Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.
— Wassily Kandinsky
The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
— Wassily Kandinsky
Color transmits and translates emotion.
— Wassily Kandinsky
Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard.
— Wassily Kandinsky
The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.
— Wassily Kandinsky
How can German music not be represented by an article?
— 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
