I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

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

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art... We must free ourselves from our attachment to the external, for only then do we transcend the tragic, and are enabled consciously to contemplate the repose which is within all things.

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

Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized that the equilibrium of any particular aspect of nature rests on the equivalence of its opposites.

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