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

Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?

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.

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.

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.