Art on the contrary sought this harmony in practice [of art itself]. More and more in its creations it has given inwardness to that what surrounds us….

In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual..

The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms..

The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position..

Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. The more determina….

Curves are so emotional..

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….

I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great ….

I don't want pictures, I want to find things out..

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects..

The unconscious in us warns us that in art we have to followoneparticular path. And if wefollow it, it isnotthe sign of anunconscious act.On the cont….

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 ….

To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual..

I hate everything approaching temperamental inspiration,'sacred fire'and all those attributes of genius which serve only as cloaks for untidy minds..

Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?.

It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought t….

Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes about to make something, but I wa….

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..

The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure..

It is a task of art to express clear vision of reality..

Reality manifests itself as constant and objective - independent of us, but as changeable in space and time. Consequently, its reflection in us conta….