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

The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.

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

The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.

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.

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.

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