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There is an old and a new consciousness of the age. The old one is directed towards the individual. The new one is directed towards the universal. The struggle of the individual against the universal may be seen both in the world war and in modern art.

Theo Van Doesburg's Popular Quotes

...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

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

- Theo Van Doesburg

To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free.

- 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

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

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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

Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual.

- Theo Van Doesburg