Occupation: Painter Birth: December 18, 1879 Death: June 29, 1940
Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing of several colors and tones….
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 ….
I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive..
Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord..
What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself and the many..
The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experie….
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen..
...A long struggle lies in store for me in this field of color..
One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side..
We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing..
There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end ….
Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies..
I cannot be grasped in the here and now, For my dwelling place is much among the dead, As the yet unborn, Slightly closer to the heart of creation th….
It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions..
I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe..
For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind.
Chosen are those artists who penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. There, where the powerhouse of….
Colour has taken hold of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me forever. That is the significance of this blessed m….
Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer..
By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately..
A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller..