"At the appointed time, necessities become ripe. That is the time when the Creative Spirit (which one can also designate as the Abstract Spirit) finds an avenue to the soul, later to other souls, and causes a yearning, an inner urge."
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Wassily Kandinsky
1866 – 1944
russischer Maler, Graphiker und Kunsttheoretiker
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