"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."

~ Wassily Kandinsky đź’Ž #Botd 1866
"Colour is a power which directly influences the soul."
~ Wassily Kandinsky

Odessa Port (1898)
"To create a work of art is to create the world."
~ Wassily Kandinsky

Munich-Schwabing with the Church of St. Ursula (1908)
"Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body." ~ Wassily Kandinsky

The Blue Rider (1903)
"The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects."
~ Wassily Kandinsky
"The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects." ~ Wassily Kandinsky
"The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects." ~ Wassily Kandinsky
"In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration."
~ Wassily Kandinsky
"In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration." ~ Wassily Kandinsky
"In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration." ~ Wassily Kandinsky
"Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street... Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks."
~ Wassily Kandinsky
"Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street... Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks." ~ Wassily Kandinsky
"Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street... Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks." ~ Wassily Kandinsky
"The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values."
~ Wassily Kandinsky

Landscape with Factory Chimney, oil on canvas, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
"I value those artists who embody the expression of their life."
~ 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

Saint George
"There is no must in art because art is free."
~ Wassily Kandinsky
"There is no must in art because art is free." ~ Wassily Kandinsky
"There is no must in art because art is free." ~ 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 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 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 artist must train not only his eye but also his soul."
~ 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. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?"
~ Wassily Kandinsky
"The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in equilibrium. Of the three primary forms, it points most clearly to the fourth dimension."
~ Wassily Kandinsky
"The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural. The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white." ~ Kandinsky
"The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural. The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white." ~ Kandinsky
"The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural. The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white." ~ Kandinsky
"The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit."
~ Wassily Kandinsky
"That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul."
~ Wassily Kandinsky
"The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal."
~ Wassily Kandinsky
"The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal." ~ Wassily Kandinsky
"The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal." ~ Wassily Kandinsky
"Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow."
~ Wassily Kandinsky
"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
"The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended." ~ Wassily Kandinsky
"Almost without exception, blue refers to the domain of abstraction and immateriality."
~ Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky (1866 – 1944) 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. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics.
Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. He settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. He returned to Moscow in 1914, after the outbreak of World War I.
However,by then "his spiritual outlook...was foreign to the argumentative materialism of Soviet society",and opportunities beckoned in Germany, to which he returned in 1920. There he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933.
Kandinsky then moved to France, where he lived for the rest of his life, becoming a French citizen in 1939 and producing some of his most prominent art. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944.
"Everything starts from a dot."
~ Wassily Kandinsky
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