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..
Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. The more determina….
I hate everything approaching temperamental inspiration,'sacred fire'and all those attributes of genius which serve only as cloaks for untidy minds..
By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created..
Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms..
It is a task of art to express clear vision of reality..
The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty..
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….
Curves are so emotional..
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 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 ….
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..
It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought t….
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….
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 essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line..
In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual..
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….
I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects..
To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual..