Occupation: Painter Birth: March 7, 1872 Death: February 1, 1944
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..
I don't want pictures, I want to find things out..
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….
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….
The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty..
To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual..
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 wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects..
Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms..
In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction become….
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 ….
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..
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 ….
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..