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 More Quotes by Wassily Kandinsky More Quotes From Wassily Kandinsky Color transmits and translates emotion. Wassily Kandinsky translate emotion color The life of the spirit may be fairly represented in diagram as a large acute-angled triangle divided horizontally into unequal parts with the narrowest segment uppermost. The lower the segment the greater it is in breadth, depth, and area. Wassily Kandinsky triangles depth may The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer and filled me with awe. Wassily Kandinsky paint prayer made Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences the world in this way: it sees light, is attracted by it, wants to grasp it, burns its finger in the process, and thus learns fear and respect for the flame. Wassily Kandinsky light spiritual children Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life. Wassily Kandinsky black color silence 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 improvement soul art A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so yellow has shades, which can be expressed by various instruments. Wassily Kandinsky color yellow giving The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it. Wassily Kandinsky obscurity matter people When I was thirteen or fourteen I bought a paintbox with oil paints from money slowly saved up. The feeling I had at the time - or better - the experience of color coming slowly out of the tube - is with me to this day. Wassily Kandinsky oil color feelings Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child. Wassily Kandinsky children past art 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 trying past art 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 envy inspiring art 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 eye strong memories 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 secret spiritual art Barriers are continually being made out of... new values which have overturned the barriers of the past. Thus one sees that it is not basically the new value that is of prime importance, but rather the spirit that is revealed in this value, as well as the freedom necessary for this revelation. Wassily Kandinsky revelations spirit past Drawing instruction is a training towards perception, exact observation and exact presentation not of the outward appearances of an object, but of its constructive elements, its lawful forces-tensions, which can be discovered in given objects and of the logical structures of same-education toward clear observation and clear rendering of the contexts, whereby surface phenomena are an introductory step towards the three-dimensional. Wassily Kandinsky training drawing perception The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble. Wassily Kandinsky color lakes dark Emotion that I experienced on first seeing the fresh paint come out of the tube.. ..the impression of colours strewn over the palette: of colours - alive, waiting, as yet unseen and hidden in their little tubes... Wassily Kandinsky unseen experience waiting Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. Otherwise one would profane one's own powerful solution. Wassily Kandinsky powerful soul doubt 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 wall pain art
