That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.
Wassily KandinskyThe artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.
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