The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms.

This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary it should find its expression in the abstraction of form and colour, that is to say, in the straight line and the clearly defined primary colour.

Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?

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.

Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized that the equilibrium of any particular aspect of nature rests on the equivalence of its opposites.

The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms.

In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual.