The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

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

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.

What is natural does not have to be a representation of something. I'm now working on a thing that is a reconstruction of a starry sky, and yet I'm making it without a given from nature. Someone who says he uses a theme from nature can be right, but also someone who says he uses nothing at all.

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

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.

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