The Ability To Simplify Means To Eliminate

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

Creation Is Dominated By Three Absolutely Different Factors: First, Nature, Which Works Upon Us By Its Laws; Second, The Artist, Who Creates A Spiritual Contact With Nature And His Materials; Third, The Medium Of Expression Through Which The Artist Translates His Inner World.

The Whole World, As We Experience It Visually, Comes To Us Through The Mystic Realm Of Color. Our Entire Being Is Nourished By It. This Mystic Quality Of Color Should Likewise Find Expression In A Work Of Art.

The Impulse Of Nature, Fused Through The Personality Of The Artist By Laws Arising From The Particular Nature Of The Medium, Produces The Rhythm And The Personal Expression Of A Work. Then The Life Of The Composition Becomes A Spiritual Unity.

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.