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

I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great masters do grasp it, unconsciously; but I believe that a painter's conscious spiritual knowledge will have a much greater influence upon his art, and that it would be due only to a weakness in him, or lack of genius, should this spiritual knowledge be harmful to his art.

I don't want pictures, I want to find things out.

Intellect confuses intuition.

What is natural does not have to be a representation of something. I'm now working on a thing that is a reconstruction of a starry sky, and yet I'm making it without a given from nature. Someone who says he uses a theme from nature can be right, but also someone who says he uses nothing at all.

The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.

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