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

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.

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.

This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary it should find its expression in the abstraction of form and colour, that is to say, in the straight line and the clearly defined primary colour.

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.