Aesthetics

“O ofício do artista é simplesmente o do instrumento transmissor.”

“I think art has a right—not an obligation—to be difficult if it wishes.”

“In my desperate struggle to free art from the ballast of the objective world I fled to the form of the Square.”

“nothing can be done in painting and sculpture without good drawing”

“I revere the memory of Pope, I respect and honour his abilities; but I do not think him at the head of his profession.”

“I have no art that makes you comfortable.”

“Nowadays, art should not be based on technique, nor on beauty, nor comfort.”

“Do the dots shine as brightly as the stars? When I close my eyes, I see the rivers and mountains of my country more clearly than the rainbows.”

“I believe in quality more than quantity.”

“I’m a short, fairly plain person who’s bluffing his case and getting away with it.”

“As a painter, I conceive that this must have been the great secret of the perfection to which the Greek and Roman sculptors brought their works.”

“A picture should end as it has to.”

“The immaterial is the sensible reality of the universe.”

“The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo.”

“We no longer believe in the eye: we are subordinating the eye to the sense of touch.”

“I need my painting to be a dramatic echo of the moment I live in.”

“I found it impossible to write in the stanza form.”

“Constructivism is a new ideology in that area of human activity which until now has been called art.”

“Ultimately architecture is all about the creation of pleasant and stimulating settings for all aspects of social life.”

“This little picture gave me the first glimmerings of atmosphere.”