I have just been thinking that the Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) does not really represent my work. I have always been convinced that other things of mine are more important.. .Narcism, fake heroism, and blindness have a lot to answer for, in the Blaue Reiter. All those high-sounding words about the birth of a great spiritual moment still resounding in my ears. Kandinsky can air his personal opinion about that or any other revolution he cares to mention. But I dislike the whole thing.. ..Take my advice – work, and don’t spent so much time thinking about blue riders or blue horses.
Em uma carta a seu amigo Franz Marc (janeiro de 1912), citado em 'Meseure 38'; como citado em Moviment, Manifesto, Melee: The Modernist Group, 1910-1914, Milton A. Cohen, Lexington Books, 14 de setembro de 2004, p. 73, (nota 19)