Quotes by : Wassily Kandinsky

(...) an inner feeling called "Stimmung" by the germans and best translated as sentiment (it is to be....

Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether....

To those that are not accustomed to it the inner beauty appears as ugliness because humanity in general....

A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express....

With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as....

Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child,....

The artist must be blind to "recognized" and "unrecognized" form, deaf to the teachings and desires of....

Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the....

Color is a power which directly influences the soul.

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