137 Quotes by Wassily Kandinsky

I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but every 'object' as well.

Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.

Empty canvas. In appearance - really empty, silent, indifferent. Stunned, almost. In effect - full of tensions, with thousand subdued voices, heavy with expectations. A little frightened because it may be violated

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.

Everything starts from a dot.

The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.

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.

An empty canvas is a living wonder – far lovelier than certain pictures.

It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest ‘correct’ theory declares the old to be false and erases it.