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.

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

Intellect confuses intuition.

Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms.

Art on the contrary sought this harmony in practice [of art itself]. More and more in its creations it has given inwardness to that what surrounds us in nature, until, in Neo-Plasticism, nature is no longer dominant. This achievement of balance may prepare the way for the fulfillment of man and signal the end of (what we call) art.

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