In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual.

Evolution is always the work of pioneers, and their followers are always small in number. This following is not a clique; it is the result of all the existing social forces; it is composed of all those who through innate or acquired capacity are ready to represent the existing degree of human revolution.

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

The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective.

Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of Nature, I was trying to express its expansion, rest and unity.

In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual.

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