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

Art on the contrary sought this harmony in practice [of art itself]. More and more in its creations it has given inwardness to that what surrounds us in nature, until, in Neo-Plasticism, nature is no longer dominant. This achievement of balance may prepare the way for the fulfillment of man and signal the end of (what we call) art.

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.

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized that the equilibrium of any particular aspect of nature rests on the equivalence of its opposites.

I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.