It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be capable of weighing colors in balance.
Wassily KandinskyColor is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.
Wassily KandinskyColor provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.
Wassily KandinskyDrawing instruction is a training towards perception, exact observation and exact presentation not of the outward appearances of an object, but of its constructive elements, its lawful forces-tensions, which can be discovered in given objects and of the logical structures of same-education toward clear observation and clear rendering of the contexts, whereby surface phenomena are an introductory step towards the three-dimensional.
Wassily Kandinsky