The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling.

A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives.

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

I regard photography and film simply as new technical means which painters must absolutely make use of, just as from time out of mind they have made use of brush, charcoal and color. It is certain, however, that photography and film must become as evocative for the sensibility as pencil, charcoal and brush. (1927)

The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling.

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

A painted surface is a real, living form.