Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?

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

The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms.

The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.

The unconscious in us warns us that in art we have to followoneparticular path. And if wefollow it, it isnotthe sign of anunconscious act.On the contrary, it showsthat there is in our ordinary consciousness a greater awareness of our unconsciousness.

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

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.