“Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.” ArtSoulPlayHandsEyeArtistCausesInspiringColorKeysHarmonyPianoStringsTouchingVibrationsKeyboardsFamous ArtistCreating ArtArtists And LifePiano Keys Book:Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912 Source: Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912
“… lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and … stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to “walk about” into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?” IfsThinkingWorldWantEyeAsksAnswersWalksInspiringPaintingEarsCreating ArtUnknown Worlds Author:Wassily Kandinsky
“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.” ArtEndsTodayInspiringAchieveMaterialsMethodLongingMereSatisfactionEnvyPainterArtisticEaseRepresentationInner LifeCreating Art Book:Kandinsky Source: Kandinsky
“With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.” Has BeensArtSoulArtistSoundNaturalInspiringCenturyExpressionMusicalExceptionDevotedReproductionCreating ArtNatural Phenomena Book:Kandinsky Source: Kandinsky
