Every phenomenon can be experienced in two ways. These two ways are not arbitrary, but are bound up with the phenomenon โ developing out of its nature and characteristics : Externally โ or โ inwardly.
Wassily KandinskyThe observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.
Wassily KandinskyThe true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.
Wassily Kandinskyโฆ lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and โฆ stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to โwalk aboutโ into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
Wassily Kandinsky