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.

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

Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms.

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

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.

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

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