137 Quotes by Wassily Kandinsky

In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow...

The eyes are hammers.

The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.

Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.

All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.

Color cannot stand alone.

Music is the ultimate teacher.

Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim.

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.