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

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.

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

I hate everything approaching temperamental inspiration,'sacred fire'and all those attributes of genius which serve only as cloaks for untidy minds.

The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.

The unconscious in us warns us that in art we have to followoneparticular path. And if wefollow it, it isnotthe sign of anunconscious act.On the contrary, it showsthat there is in our ordinary consciousness a greater awareness of our unconsciousness.