Wassily Kandinsky Quotes

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• 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.

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  Inspiring, Art, Eye

  Wassily Kandinsky (1955). “Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912”

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• Everything starts from a dot.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiring, Art, Drawing

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• Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

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  Science, Soul, Vibrations

  Wassily Kandinsky (1914). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Photography, Art, Creativity

  Wassily Kandinsky, Vivian Endicott Barnett, Armin Zweite, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany), Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (1992). “Kandinsky: watercolors and drawings”, Prestel Pub

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• There is no must in art because art is free.

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  Art, Freedom, Painter

  Wassily Kandinsky (1981). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.52, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

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  Art, Color, Abstract Painting

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• Color transmits and translates emotion.

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  Color, Emotion, Translate

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

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  Art, Eye, Soul

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.68, Sheba Blake Publishing

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

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  Real, Color, Psychics

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

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  Art, World, Art Is

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Art, Real

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• … 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?

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  Inspiring, Eye, Thinking

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

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  Art, Soul, Improvement

  Wassily Kandinsky (1914). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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

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  Art, Abstract, Appeals

  Wassily Kandinsky (1914). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

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  Circles, Three, Synthesis

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Wassily Kandinsky (Illustrated)”, p.113, Delphi Classics

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• Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.

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  Yellow, Orange, Humanity

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Wassily Kandinsky (Illustrated)”, p.419, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

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  Men, Blue, White

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Beautiful

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.78, Sheba Blake Publishing

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

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  Mean, Color, Soul

  "Abstract Art" by Anna Moszynska, Thames and Hudson, 1990.

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

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  Joy, Triumph, Inevitable

  Wassily Kandinsky, Kenneth Clement Lindsay, Peter Vergo (1994). “Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art”

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• Each color lives by its mysterious life.

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  Color, Mysterious Life, Mysterious

  Ankriktip, Abelia Serotina, Wassily Kandinsky (2016). “Wassily Kandinsky Artworks”, p.2, Book and Magazine

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• In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.

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  Inspiration, Doubt, Enthusiasm

  Wassily Kandinsky (1970). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular”

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

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  Art, Real, World

  Hajo Düchting, Wassily Kandinsky (1993). “Wassily Kandinsky, 1866-1944: A Revolution in Painting”, Taschen

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• Color cannot stand alone.

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  Color, Stand Alone

  Wassily Kandinsky (1955). “Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912”

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• 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.

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  Art, Goal, Mastery

  Wassily Kandinsky (1914). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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