The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

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

What is natural does not have to be a representation of something. I'm now working on a thing that is a reconstruction of a starry sky, and yet I'm making it without a given from nature. Someone who says he uses a theme from nature can be right, but also someone who says he uses nothing at all.

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.

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.

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

The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.