Art, like love, has a fine detail to it. You need to know exactly what is going on.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Kandinsky compares art to love, suggesting both require careful attention to specific details to be fully understood.
- In plain terms
- Like love, art needs you to pay close attention to the small things happening within it.
- What can you take from it?
- Understanding art requires noticing exact details just like understanding love does.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What details in art reveal its deeper meaning?
- How is loving art similar to loving a person?
Another view
Some art is meant to be felt instinctively rather than analyzed in detail.
More from Wassily Kandinsky
The world is full of resonances. It constitutes a cosmos of things exerting a spiritual action. The dead matter is a living spirit.
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