Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, 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.

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

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.

The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

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