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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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