Intellect confuses intuition.

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

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

Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.

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

The unconscious in us warns us that in art we have to followoneparticular path. And if wefollow it, it isnotthe sign of anunconscious act.On the contrary, it showsthat there is in our ordinary consciousness a greater awareness of our unconsciousness.

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