Wassily Kandinsky Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

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

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Freedom, Painter

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

• 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.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Spiritual, Art, Real

• Everything starts from a dot.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiring, Art, Drawing

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

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Eye, Soul

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

• 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.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiring, Art, Eye

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

• 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.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Color, Abstract Painting

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

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, World, Art Is

• 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

• In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the natural consequences of an aimless, materialist art.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Jealousy, Art, Hatred

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

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

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Abstract, Appeals

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

• With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiring, Art, Expression

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Kandinsky”, p.59, Parkstone International

• The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Future, Use

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.37, Sheba Blake Publishing

• Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Mother, Art, Time

  1912 Concerning the Spiritual in Art.

• 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.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Goal, Mastery

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

• Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Children, Age

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.51, Sheba Blake Publishing

• 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.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiring, Art, Envy

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Kandinsky”, p.59, Parkstone International

• Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Mother, Art, Children

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.15, Sheba Blake Publishing

• 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.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Wall, Pain

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

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Real, World

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

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

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Soul, Improvement

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

• 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.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Forgotten, Should

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

• Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Children, Past

  Wassily Kandinsky (1983). “Kandinsky, Russia and the Bauhaus, 1912-1932: January 5-Febr Uary 11, 1984”

• 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.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Spiritual, Art, Sight

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.15, Sheba Blake Publishing

• Each period of a civilisation creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn. To try and revive the principles of art of past centuries can lead only to the production of stillborn works.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Past, Trying

• The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being. Nor is its existence casual and inconsequent, but it has a definite and purposeful strength, alike in its material and spiritual life.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Spiritual, Art, Secret

  Wassily Kandinsky (1914). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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