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

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.

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

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.

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

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

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