Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential.
Wassily KandinskyArt is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.
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 KandinskyThere is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression.
Wassily KandinskyA painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.
Wassily Kandinsky