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.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

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

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

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.

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.

I hate everything approaching temperamental inspiration,'sacred fire'and all those attributes of genius which serve only as cloaks for untidy minds.