Wassily Kandinsky Quotes

Everything starts from a dot.

The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

There is no must in art because art is free.

Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential.

Color transmits and translates emotion.

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

Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.

To create a work of art is to create the world.

The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.

… lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and … stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to “walk about” into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?

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

The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in equilibrium. Of the three primary forms, it points most clearly to the fourth dimension.

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.

The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.

That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.

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

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

Each color lives by its mysterious life.

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

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 the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow.

The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.