Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.