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.

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.

To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.

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

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

Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms.