Quote #22
As has been said...it is impossible to make clear the aims of a work of art by means of words.
More from Wassily Kandinsky
- 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…
- I only want to paint good,necessary,living pictures,which are experienced properly by at least a few viewers.
- Let the viewer stroll around within the picture,to force him to forget himself and so to become a part of the picture.
- I saw all my colours in spirit.Wild,almost mad lines drew themselves in front of me.(On seeing Wagner's Lohengrin)
- The medieval pictures I painted were inspired by the impressions of old Schwabing.
- Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammer, the soul is the piano with the strings. (Comparing Painting and Music)
- The purpose of my book concerning the 'Spiritual in Art' and 'Der Blaue Reiter was to awaken the ability to experience the spiritual in mat…
- There is no must in art because art is free.