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

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

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 hate everything approaching temperamental inspiration,'sacred fire'and all those attributes of genius which serve only as cloaks for untidy minds.

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.

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

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