Quotes from Wassily Kandinsky

Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

Color cannot stand alone.

Everything starts from a dot.

The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.

The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.

Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.

There is no must in art because art is free.