empathy

"A 'we,' not an 'I,' is the subject of the empathizing. Not through the feeling of oneness, but through empathizing, do we experience others. The feeling of oneness and the enrichment of our own experience become possible through empathy." - Edith

the artist

"The artist should be blind to 'accepted' or 'unaccepted' form, deaf to the precepts and demands of his time.
His eyes should be always directed toward his own inner life, and his ears turned to the voice of internal necessity.
Then he will size upon all permitted means, and just as easily upon all forbidden means.
This is the only way of giving expression to mystical necessity.
All means are moral if they are internally necessary.
All means are sinful if they did not spring from the source of internal necessity." - Kandinsky

when the external supports threaten to collapse

"When religion, science, and morality are shaken (the last by the mighty hand of Nietzsche), when the external supports threaten to collapse, then man's gaze turns away from the external toward himself." - Kandinsky

within the bounds of possibility

"the higher one ascends the spiritual triangle, the more obvious becomes this sharp-edged fear, this insecurity. First one finds here and there eyes capable of seeing for themselves, heads capable of putting two and two together. People with these gifts ask themselves, 'If this wisdom of the day before yesterday has been overthrown by that of yesterday, and the latter by that of today, then could it not also be somehow possible that the wisdom of today could be supplanted by that of tomorrow?' And the bravest of them reply, 'It is within the bounds of possibility.'" - Kandinsky

a man to be envied

"Every artist who buries himself in the hidden inner treasures of his art is a man to be envied, a co-worker upon the spiritual pyramid that will one day reach to heaven" - Kandinsky