Wassily Kandinsky Quotes About Canvas

Quotes about: Canvas

• Empty canvas. In appearance - really empty, silent, indifferent. Stunned, almost. In effect - full of tensions, with thousand subdued voices, heavy with expectations. A little frightened because it may be violated

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Voice, Expectations, May

• An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Canvas, Wonder, Empty

  "The Painter's Object" by Myfanwy Evans Piper, (p. 53), 1937.

• An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in reality, is crammed with thousands of undertone tensions and full of expectancy. Slightly apprehensive lest it should be outraged.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Reality, Dull, Facts

• I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Color, Knives, Canvas

• 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.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Strong, Memories, Eye

  "Kandinsky" by Frank Whitford, Paul Hamlyn Ltd, London, 1967.

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