Wassily Kandinsky Quotes
The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it.
Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.
Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.
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.
The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble.
In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.
Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.
Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. Otherwise one would profane one's own powerful solution.
The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.
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 train not only his eye but also his soul, so that it can weigh colours in its own scale and thus become a determinant in artistic creation.
The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age.
To those that are not accustomed to it the inner beauty appears as ugliness because humanity in general inclines to the outer and knows nothing of the inner.