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 More Quotes by Wassily Kandinsky More Quotes From Wassily Kandinsky Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view. Wassily Kandinsky matter views world In your works, you have realized what I, albeit in uncertain form, have so greatly longed for in music. The independent progress through their own destinies, the independent life of the individual voices in your compositions, is exactly what I am trying to find in my painting. Wassily Kandinsky independent destiny voice 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 sight art Objects damage pictures. Wassily Kandinsky damage objects The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age. Wassily Kandinsky artist teaching age Today is the great day of one of the revelations of this world. The interrelationships of these individual realms were illumined as by a flash of lightning; they burst unexpected, frightening, and joyous out of the darkness. Never were they so strongly tied together and never so sharply divided. Wassily Kandinsky great-day darkness together Whether the psychological effect of color is direct...or whether it is the outcome of association, is open to question. The soul being one with the body, it may well be possible that a psychological tremor generates corresponding one through association. Wassily Kandinsky color body soul The sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences. Wassily Kandinsky palette color spiritual Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age. Wassily Kandinsky age children art Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture. Wassily Kandinsky fabulous splendor elements 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 analysis expression order The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit. Wassily Kandinsky way-forward abstract spirit The world is full of resonances. It constitutes a cosmos of things exerting a spiritual action. The dead matter is a living spirit. Wassily Kandinsky cosmos spiritual world The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul, so that it can weigh colours in its own scale and thus become a determinant in artistic creation. Wassily Kandinsky eye artist soul 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 lake colors dark yellow Color is a power which directly influences the soul. Wassily Kandinsky influences which color soul power How can German music not be represented by an article? Wassily Kandinsky german article how music
