1. “It is a task of art to express clear vision of reality.”
2. “The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.”
3. “To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because of reality is opposed to the spiritual.”
4. “Intellect confuses intuition.”
5. “Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color an the relationships between then than by the concrete subject of the picture.”
6. “The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.”
7. “I don’t want pictures, I want to find things out.”
8. “The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.”
9. “The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.”
10. “Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.”
11. “The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.”
12. “The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.”
13. “In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual.”
14. “By unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.”
15. “The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective.”
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