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 surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.

Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.

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

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.

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