...every machine is the spiritualization of an organism.

- Theo Van Doesburg

The complete and definitive work of art is created beyond one's individuality... ...The universal transcends such a level. Mere spontaneity has never…

- Theo Van Doesburg

Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of coulor and matter, bu…

- Theo Van Doesburg

For - to say a few words on technique - whereas the curved line was used predominantly for reasons of beauty, (Phidias, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rubens…

- Theo Van Doesburg

While the expressive possibilities of Neoplasticism are limited to two dimensions (the plane), Elementarism realizes the possibility of plasticism in…

- Theo Van Doesburg

he line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects perceived was all-important.

- Theo Van Doesburg

We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.

- Theo Van Doesburg

The square is to us what the cross was to the early Christians.

- Theo Van Doesburg

In place of the dream, the future will put art on a scientific and technical basis.

- Theo Van Doesburg