Starting from Wassily Kansindsky’s theories of visual arts, I discuss, in this paper, the transdisciplinary methodology of research-creation; while exceeding the artist’s naïve reflection upon their own work, research-creation refutes the false and inexact common preconceptions that artistic creation is equivalent to academic research and that a practitioner working at the university is automatically a researcher. Drawing from all creative forms and expressions, and from academic fields such as literature studies, art history, philosophy, etc., research-creation as practised by Wassily Kandinsky—before the concept was actually coined—shows that a theory of art depending on the theorist’s practice of said art can, while exploring art’s and academia’s different languages, suggest stimulating ways of being an artist and a theoretician at the university—hence, practising research-creation.