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

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

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

I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.

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

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

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.