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10/15/14

Wassily Kandinsky Quotes


"An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures." ~Wassily Kandinsky

"Color is a power which directly influences the soul." ~Wassily Kandinsky

"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." ~Kandinsky 

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

"Each color lives by its mysterious life." ~Wassily Kandinsky

"Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions." ~ Kandinsky

"Everything starts from a dot." ~Wassily Kandinsky

"If the answer is yes, what more do you want?" ~Wassily Kandinsky

"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." ~Wassily Kandinsky

"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 colours, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential." ~Wassily Kandinsky

"Painting is a thundering collision of different worlds, intended to create a new world in and from the struggle with one another, a new world which is the work of art." ~Kandinsky 

"The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul." ~Wassily Kandinsky

"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." ~Wassily Kandinsky

"The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble." ~Wassily Kandinsky

"There is no must in art because art is free." ~Kandinsky

"To create a work of art is to create the world." ~Wassily Kandinsky

BIO

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of abstract art. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa (today Ukraine), where he graduated at Grekov Odessa Art school. Wikipedia

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