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

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

Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.

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

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Everything is expressed through RELATIONSHIPS.

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.