By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.

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.

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

I don't want pictures, I want to find things out.

I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great masters do grasp it, unconsciously; but I believe that a painter's conscious spiritual knowledge will have a much greater influence upon his art, and that it would be due only to a weakness in him, or lack of genius, should this spiritual knowledge be harmful to his art.

Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. The more determinately (consciously) this recognition is experienced, the more intense our happiness. The more determinately (consciously) this union with the universal is felt, the more individual subjectivity declines.

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