Wassily Kandinsky
‘It is only over the years that I have learned to exercise patience in such moments and not smash the picture over my knee. Thus, it was not until after nearly five months that . . . it suddenly dawned on me what was missing—the white edge. . . . Since the white edge proved the solution to the picture, I named the whole picture after it.’
Reminiscences. 1913
‘Paris with its wonderful (intense soft) light had relaxed my palette—there were other colors, other entirely new forms, and some that I had used years earlier. Naturally I did all this unconsciously.’
The Guggenheim Museum: Paintings 1880-1845
