Our Entire Being Is Nourished By Color.

A Work Based Only On A Line Concept Is Scarcely More Than A Illustration; It Fails To Achieve Pictorial Structure. Pictorial Structure Is Based On A Plane Concept. The Line Originates In The Meeting Of Two Planes ... We Can Lose Ourselves In A Multitude Of Lines, If Through Them We Lose Our Senses For The Planes.

A Thing In Itself Never Expresses Anything. It Is The Relation Between Things That Gives Meaning To Them And That Formulates A Thought. A Thought Functions Only As A Fragmentary Part In The Formulation Of An Idea.

It Isn't Necessary To Make Things Large To Make Them Monumental; A Head By Giacometti One Inch High Would Be Able To Vitalize This Whole Space.

Depth, In A Pictorial, Plastic Sense, Is Not Created By The Arrangement Of Objects One After Another Toward A Vanishing Point, In The Sense Of The Renaissance Perspective, But On The Contrary (and In Absolute Denial Of This Doctrine) By The Creation Of Forces In The Sense Of Push And Pull . Nor Is Depth Created By Tonal Gradation (another Doctrine Of The Academician Which, At Its Culmination, Degraded The Use Of Color To A Mere Function Of Expressing Dark And Light).

And So Artistic Creation Is The Metamorphosis Of The External Physical Aspects Of A Thing Into A Self-sustaining Spiritual Reality .