1. Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract works.Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. He more.. more..

2. “ Wassily Kandinsky:There is no form, there is nothing in the world which says nothing. Often - it is true - the message does not reach our soul, either because it has no meaning in and for itself, or - as is more likely – because it has not been conveyed to the right place....Every serious work rings inwardly, like the calm and dignified words: ‘Here I am!' #Science and Scientists#Science and Scientists

3. “ Wassily Kandinsky:As has been said....it is impossible to make clear the aims of a work of art by means of words. #Arts and Artists#Arts and Artists

4. “ Wassily Kandinsky:Art has much in common with religion. #Religion #Religion

5. “ Wassily Kandinsky:Painting is an art, and the art in its whole is not a vain objets creation which get lost in the void, but a power which has a goal and must serve to the evolution and to the refinement of the human soul, to the moving of the Triangle. It is the language which speaks to the soul, in its proper form, of things which are the daily bread of the soul and which it can receive only under this form. #Design#Design

6. “ Wassily Kandinsky:The purpose of my book concerning the 'Spiritual in Art' and 'Der Blaue Reiter was to awaken the ability to experience the spiritual in material and abstract things..the desire to bring out this joyful ability in people who don't have it..it was the main purpose of both publications. #Books - Reading#Books - Reading

7. “ Wassily Kandinsky:What is right artistically can only be attained through feeling. #Arts and Artists#Arts and Artists

8. “ Wassily Kandinsky:Just because an artist uses 'abstract methods',it does not mean he is an 'abstract' artist.It does not even mean he is an artist. #Arts and Artists#Arts and Artists

9. “ Wassily Kandinsky:Art, like love, has a fine detail to it. You need to know exactly what is going on. #Love#Love

10. “ Wassily Kandinsky:I only want to paint good,necessary,living pictures,which are experienced properly by at least a few viewers. #Television#Television

11. “ Wassily Kandinsky:the artist must have something to say, mastery over form is not his goal but adaption of form to its inner meaning. #Goals#Goals

12. “ Wassily Kandinsky:In your works, you have realized what I, albeit in uncertain form, have so greatly longed for in music. The independent progress through their own destinies, the independent life of the individual voices in your compositions is exactly what I am trying to find in my paintings. #Literature#Literature

13. “ Wassily Kandinsky:I saw all my colours in spirit.Wild,almost mad lines drew themselves in front of me. (On seeing Wagner's Lohengrin) #Music#Music

14. “ Wassily Kandinsky:A work of art consists of two elements,the inner and outer. The inner is the emotion in the soul of the artist....it has the capacity to evoke similar emotions in the observer....it must exist otherwise the work of art is a sham. #Arts and Artists #Arts and Artists

15. “ Wassily Kandinsky:Colour is a means of exerting direct influence on the soul. (1912/13) #Influence#Influence

16. “ Wassily Kandinsky:Is beautiful what proceeds from an inner necessity of the soul. Is beautiful what is inwardly beautiful. #Beauty#Beauty

17. “ Wassily Kandinsky:Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammer, the soul is the piano with the strings. (Comparing Painting and Music) #Words#Words

18. “ Wassily Kandinsky:The geometric point is an invisible thing. Therefore, it must be defined as an incorporeal thing. Considered in terms of substance, it equals zero. […] Thus we look upon the geometric point as the ultimate and most singular union of silence and speech. The geometric point has, therefore, been given its material form, in the first instance, in writing. It belongs to language and signifies silence. #Silence#Silence

19. “ Wassily Kandinsky:In this painting, I was in fact in quest for a certain hour, which was and which remains always the most beautiful hour of the day in Moscow. The sun is already low and has reached its highest force, which it has searched all the day, to which it has aspired all the day. […] The sun dissolves all Moscow in a spot which, as a frenzied tuba, makes entered into vibration all the inner being, the whole soul. […] Rendering this hour seemed the biggest, the most impossible of the happiness for an artist. These impressions renewed every sunny day. They brought me a joy which shattered me until the bottom of the soul, and which reached until ecstasy. #Happiness#Happiness

20. “ Wassily Kandinsky:All means (in painting) are sacred when they are dictated by inner necessity. All means are reprehensible when they do not spring from the fountain of inner necessity....The artist must be blind to ‘recognized’ and ‘unrecognized’ form, deaf to the teachings and desires of his time. His open eyes must be directed to his inner life and his ears must be constantly attuned to the voice of inner necessity. #Autobiography#Autobiography

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