Occupation: Painter Birth: March 7, 1872 Death: February 1, 1944
Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action const….
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….
The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life..
Intellect confuses intuition..
Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody..
The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture..
The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel..
Everything is expressed through RELATIONSHIPS..
The more basic the color, the more inward, the more 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….
It is a task of art to express clear vision of reality..
I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within..
By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created..
Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by ….
This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary it should find its expressi….
abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality..
The purer the artist's 'mirror' is, the more true reality reflects in it. Overseeing the historical culture of art, we must conclude that the mirror ….
All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color..
Reality manifests itself as constant and objective - independent of us, but as changeable in space and time. Consequently, its reflection in us conta….
The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective..
The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line..