Occupation: Painter Birth: March 7, 1872 Death: February 1, 1944
Everything is expressed through RELATIONSHIPS..
The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel..
The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture..
The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life..
Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody..
If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art... We must free ourselves from our attachment to the ….
I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within..
Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by ….
In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction become….
Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure….
Evolution is always the work of pioneers, and their followers are always small in number. This following is not a clique; it is the result of all the….
Intellect confuses intuition..
Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the pict….
Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action const….
abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality..
The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position..
The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure..
Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?.
What is natural does not have to be a representation of something. I'm now working on a thing that is a reconstruction of a starry sky, and yet I'm m….
The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective..
Reality manifests itself as constant and objective - independent of us, but as changeable in space and time. Consequently, its reflection in us conta….