It is a task of art to express clear vision of reality.

Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of Nature, I was trying to express its expansion, rest and unity.

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

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.

Intellect confuses intuition.

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.