Wassily KandinskyThinkers

Abstract art is understandable if one thinks of it like music, which has been for some centuries the only art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul.

Abstract art is about learning how to view a picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.

Abstract art is pure effect. The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less powerful than the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo.

Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.

Abstract art is a genre in which the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.

Abstract art is grounded in the notion that objects damage pictures.

Abstract art is a form of art that increases in clear and direct appeal the more abstract it is.

Art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false and erases it.

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

Art is a thing which to view is to stop thinking and to ask oneself only whether the work has enabled one to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?