“Kandinsky did not see his divorced parents as hostile figures of authority. They were merely two very different people who were devoted to him and who, in their own way, fostered his sensitivity. But particularly in his mother he saw the best qualities – “grave, austere beauty, well-bred simplicity, boundless energy.”

“Kandinsky did not see his divorced parents as hostile figures of authority. They were merely two very different people who were devoted to him and who, in their own way, fostered his sensitivity. But particularly in his mother he saw the best qualities – “grave, austere beauty, well-bred simplicity, boundless energy.”

— Wassily Kandinsky