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

Art on the contrary sought this harmony in practice [of art itself]. More and more in its creations it has given inwardness to that what surrounds us in nature, until, in Neo-Plasticism, nature is no longer dominant. This achievement of balance may prepare the way for the fulfillment of man and signal the end of (what we call) art.

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.

Intellect confuses intuition.

Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. The more determinately (consciously) this recognition is experienced, the more intense our happiness. The more determinately (consciously) this union with the universal is felt, the more individual subjectivity declines.

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

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