Occupation: Painter Birth: March 21, 1880 Death: February 17, 1966
The truly monumental can only come about by means of the most exact and refined relation between parts. Since each thing carries both a meaning of it….
There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations..
The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living….
The impressionistic method leads into a complete splitting and dissolution of all areas involved in the composition, and color is used to create an o….
Through a painting, we can see the whole world..
Our entire being is nourished by color..
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the ex….
Just as counterpoint and harmony follow their own laws, and differ in rhythm and movement, both formal tensions and color tensions have a development….
To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy..
The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He must become an artist. That means he cannot ….
Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced..
The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and ….
In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light..
Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the l….
I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an opt….
Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects..
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist..
A thing in itself never expresses anything. It is the relation between things that gives meaning to them and that formulates a thought. A thought fun….
The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. Our entire being is nourished by it. This mystic qualit….
An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in ord….
Space expands or contracts in the tensions and functions through which it exists. Space is not a static, inert thing. Space is alive; space is dynami….