A 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 KandinskyColors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration.
Wassily KandinskyColor is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.
Wassily KandinskyEvery work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.
Wassily Kandinsky