Quote #18

The purpose of my book concerning the 'Spiritual in Art' and 'Der Blaue Reiter was to awaken the ability to experience the spiritual in material and abstract things..the desire to bring out this joyful ability in people who don't have it..it was the main purpose of both publications.

More from Wassily Kandinsky

  1. There is no must in art because art is free.
  2. The medieval pictures I painted were inspired by the impressions of old Schwabing.
  3. A work of art consists of two elements,the inner and outer. The inner is the emotion in the soul of the artist...it has the capacity to evo…
  4. Let the viewer stroll around within the picture,to force him to forget himself and so to become a part of the picture.
  5. Just because an artist uses 'abstract methods' ,it does not mean he is an 'abstract' artist.It does not even mean he is an artist.
  6. I more or less dissolved the objects(in my improvisations) so that not all of them could be recognised at once,so that the spiritual overto…
  7. Both of us loved blue, Franz Marc horses, I riders. Hence the name Der Blaue Reiter.(The Blue Rider)
  8. As has been said...it is impossible to make clear the aims of a work of art by means of words.

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