Everything is expressed through RELATIONSHIPS.

If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art... We must free ourselves from our attachment to the external, for only then do we transcend the tragic, and are enabled consciously to contemplate the repose which is within all things.

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

I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.

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

Evolution is always the work of pioneers, and their followers are always small in number. This following is not a clique; it is the result of all the existing social forces; it is composed of all those who through innate or acquired capacity are ready to represent the existing degree of human revolution.

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