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Whoever says he is starting from a given in nature may be right, and so is he who says he is starting from nothing!

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.

Reality only appears to us tragical because of the disequilibrium and confusion of its appearances.

Non-figurative art is created by establishing a dynamic rhythm of determinate mutual relations which excludes the formation of any particular form.

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

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.

Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.

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

Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms.

I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art.

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 artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.

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

Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art has always been the 'realized' expression of equilibrium.

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.

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

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

I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.

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 rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.

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

The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between subjective and objective.

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

The desire for freedom and equilibrium (harmony) is inherent in man (due to the universal in him).

It is not important to make many pictures but that I have one picture right.

Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from these two factors, all is unified in one unique beauty.

All individual thought is dissolved in universal thought, as all form is dissolved in the universal plastic means of Abstract-Real painting.

Art is the path to being spiritual.

Abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

Only conscious man can mirror the universal: he can consciously become one with the universal and so can consciously transcend the individual.

By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit.

Curves are so emotional.

To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.

The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.

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

We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves.

I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture.

By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.

The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.