Quote #23

I only want to paint good,necessary,living pictures,which are experienced properly by at least a few viewers.

More from Wassily Kandinsky

  1. As has been said...it is impossible to make clear the aims of a work of art by means of words.
  2. I saw all my colours in spirit.Wild,almost mad lines drew themselves in front of me.(On seeing Wagner's Lohengrin)
  3. 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…
  4. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammer, the soul is the piano with the strings. (Comparing Painting and Music)
  5. Let the viewer stroll around within the picture,to force him to forget himself and so to become a part of the picture.
  6. The medieval pictures I painted were inspired by the impressions of old Schwabing.
  7. 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…
  8. There is no must in art because art is free.

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