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Wassily Kandinsky was an Abstract Expressionist, says the art which has no contemporary idea or sensitivity of its time, can't re-inspire new thoughts in future. The principles of art are the things of the past so they should not be repeated in the time today.," 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. Efforts to revive the art principles of the past will at best produce an art that is stillborn." (Concerning the spiritual in art, 1911)

Today artist don't believe in the imitation of the objects in nature. They yearn for the inner reality. " 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."
"That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need which springs from soul."

Paul Klee (1879-1910) contemporary to Kandinsky, says nature is full with inspirations and creations. One should deeply study her and realise her by his instincts. A true art is born when inner ideas go through creative means and thus it lifts his life towards divinity. In the womb of nature, at the source of creation, where the secret key to all lies guarded. But not all can enter. Each should follow where the pulses of his own heart leads...
What springs from this source, whatever it may be called, dream, idea or fantasy-must be taken seriously only if unites with proper creative means to form a work of art. then those curiosities become realities of art which help to lift life out of its mediocrity.

Henri Matisse (1869-1954), was a Fauvist and did not believe in color theory set by nature. He wanted to represent things in the way they looked appropriate in the picture. He says, "I can't copy nature in a servile way, I must interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture-when I have found the relationship of all the tones the result must be a living harmony of tones, a harmony not unlike that of a musical composition.

He further adds that a piece of art should not contain any depressing subject matter rather it should ease visitors from their tensions. In his words "What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of trembling or depressing subject- matter, an art which might be for every mental worker, be he businessman or writer, like an appeasing influence, like a mental soothe, something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

Paul Cezanne a cubist artist says artist should not form ideas through literary sources but should inspire by nature." He (artist) must beware of the literary spirit which so often causes the painter to deviate from his true path- the concrete study of nature- to loose himself too long in intangible speculations." The Louvre is a good book to consult but it must be only an intermediary. The real and immense study to be undertaken is the manifold picture of nature.(Quoted from a letter to Emile Bernard 12th May 1904)

Paul Gaugin (1848-1903) This is a quotation from his intimate journals which were published after his death as Avant et Apre's." Van Gogh and Paul Gaugin gave new definition to scientific principles of colours.
"Seek for harmony and not contrast, for what accords not for what clashes, it is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to energy object beware of this stumbling-block.
If you reproduce what another has done, you are nothing but a maker of patch work; you blunt your sensibility and immobilise your coloring. Let everything about you breath calm and peace of the soul. Also avoid motion in a pose. Each of your fingers ought to be in a static position...