The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.

Often the hands grasp more quickly than the head.

The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially... black, white and grey. There is a certain need in me for communication with human beings. Black and white is writing.

Zurich in 1915,... While the thunder of the batteries rumbled in the distance, we pasted, we recited, we versified, we sang with all our soul. We searched for an elementary art that would, we thought, save mankind from the madness of these times.

We attempted perfection; we wanted an object to be without flaw, so we cut the papers with a razor, pasted them down meticulously, but it buckled and was ruined... that is why we decided to tear prewrinkled paper, so that in the finished work of art imperfection would be an integral part, as if at birth death were built in.