137 Quotes by Wassily Kandinsky

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.

The world is full of resonances. It constitutes a cosmos of things exerting a spiritual action. The dead matter is a living spirit.

Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.

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...

Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. Otherwise one would profane one's own powerful solution.

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

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.

Color transmits and translates emotion.

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.