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" An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea. "
Expression
Only
Order
" Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects. "
Superficial
Art
Result
" Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic. "
Truth
Reality
Magic
" Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced. "
Me
Art
Time
" A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. "
Art
Emotions
Artist
" Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind. "
Constant
Life
Mind
" Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony. "
Special
Color
Music
" Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel. "
Wheel
Colors
Pieces
" 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. "
Nature
Three
World
" Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist. "
Artist
Art
Expression
" In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light. "
Picture
Color
Creates
" It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form. "
Brings
Dictates
Out
" It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws. "
Abstract
Work
Expression
" My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature. "
Life
Create
Experience
" Painters must speak through paint, not through words. "
Paint
Speak
Words
" The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. "
Speak
Communication
Simplify
" The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization. "
Art
Possibilities
Creation
" The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. "
Through
World
Color
" Through a painting we can see the whole world. "
Painting
See
World
" To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction. "
Ignore
Development
Reaction
" What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. "
Aesthetic
Time
Principles
" When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium. "
Become
Art
Emotion
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