List of Wassily Kandinsky Quotes

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.

I Let Myself Go. I Thought Little Of The Houses And Trees, But Applied Colour Stripes And Spots To The Canva... Within Me Sounded The Memory Of Early Evening In Moscow, Before My Eyes Was The Strong, Colour-saturated Scale Of The Munich Light And Atmosphere, Which Thundered Deeply In The Shadows.

Every Artist, As Child Of His Age, Is Impelled To Express The Spirit Of His Age.

There Is, However, In Art Another Kind Of External Similarity Which Is Founded On A Fundamental Truth. When There Is A Similarity Of Inner Tendency In The Whole Moral And Spiritual Atmosphere, A Similarity Of Ideals, At First Closely Pursued But Later Lost To Sight, A Similarity In The Inner Feeling Of Any One Period To That Of Another, The Logical Result Will Be A Revival Of The External Forms Which Served To Express Those Inner Feelings In An Earlier Age.

Drawing Instruction Is A Training Towards Perception, Exact Observation And Exact Presentation Not Of The Outward Appearances Of An Object, But Of Its Constructive Elements, Its Lawful Forces-tensions, Which Can Be Discovered In Given Objects And Of The Logical Structures Of Same-education Toward Clear Observation And Clear Rendering Of The Contexts, Whereby Surface Phenomena Are An Introductory Step Towards The Three-dimensional.

Efforts To Revive The Art Principles Of The Past At Best Produce Works Of Art That Resemble A Stillborn Child.

Today Is The Great Day Of One Of The Revelations Of This World. The Interrelationships Of These Individual Realms Were Illumined As By A Flash Of Lightning; They Burst Unexpected, Frightening, And Joyous Out Of The Darkness. Never Were They So Strongly Tied Together And Never So Sharply Divided.

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.

Painting Took On A Fabulous Strength And Splendor; The Object Was Discredited As An Indispensable Element Of The Picture.

In Your Works, You Have Realized What I, Albeit In Uncertain Form, Have So Greatly Longed For In Music. The Independent Progress Through Their Own Destinies, The Independent Life Of The Individual Voices In Your Compositions, Is Exactly What I Am Trying To Find In My Painting.

A Painter, Who Finds No Satisfaction In Mere Representation, However Artistic, In His Longing To Express His Inner Life, Cannot But Envy The Ease With Which Music, The Most Non-material Of The Arts Today, Achieves This End. He Naturally Seeks To Apply The Methods Of Music To His Own Art.

When I Was Thirteen Or Fourteen I Bought A Paintbox With Oil Paints From Money Slowly Saved Up. The Feeling I Had At The Time - Or Better - The Experience Of Color Coming Slowly Out Of The Tube - Is With Me To This Day.