Wassily Kandinsky Quotes

Everything starts from a dot. ”
- Wassily Kandinsky

There is no must in art because art is free. ”
- Wassily Kandinsky

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul. ”
- Wassily Kandinsky

Objects damage pictures. ”
- Wassily Kandinsky

The more frightening the world becomes ... the more art becomes abstract. ”
- Wassily Kandinsky

Colour is the key. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically. ”
- Wassily Kandinsky

There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression. ”
- 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 colors, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential. ”
- Wassily Kandinsky

All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity. ”
- Wassily Kandinsky

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

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

The artist is not a 'Sunday child' for whom everything immediately succeeds. He does not have the right to live without duty. The task that is assigned to him is painful, it is a heavy cross for him to bear. ”
- Wassily Kandinsky