Wassily Kandinsky Quotes
Top 58 wise famous quotes and sayings by Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.
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.
Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.
Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. Otherwise one would profane one's own powerful solution.
Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration.
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.
Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.
Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.
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.
Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard.
Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.
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 ...
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.
All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.
Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.
There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression.
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.
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 ...
The world is full of resonances. It constitutes a cosmos of things exerting a spiritual action. The dead matter is a living spirit.
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.
The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it.
In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.
The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.
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.
The onlooker turns from the artist who has higher ideals and who cannot see his life purpose in an art without aims.
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.
In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.