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

By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.

Everything is expressed through RELATIONSHIPS.

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.

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

Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. The more determinately (consciously) this recognition is experienced, the more intense our happiness. The more determinately (consciously) this union with the universal is felt, the more individual subjectivity declines.

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