Occupation: Painter Birth: December 18, 1879 Death: June 29, 1940
...A long struggle lies in store for me in this field of color..
I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe..
There is no substitute for intuition..
Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk..
Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail. Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let….
An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake..
The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art, be accompanied by distortion ….
Art makes something a lot more visible or audible..
Everything passes, and what remains of former times, what remains of life, is the spiritual. In everything we do, the claim of the Absolute is unchan….
I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big blinkers, then the disappearance of the blink….
In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more prof….
Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better!.
In my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal, the intensity gets lost very q….
It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being..
I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute..
I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive..
Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour..
To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only..
The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now..
Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal..
A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same ….