Theo Van Doesburg Inspirational Quotes (10)

To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free.

The square is to us what the cross was to the early Christians.

While the expressive possibilities of Neoplasticism are limited to two dimensions (the plane), Elementarism realizes the possibility of plasticism in four dimensions, in the field of time-space.

...every machine is the spiritualization of an organism.

The complete and definitive work of art is created beyond one's individuality... ...The universal transcends such a level. Mere spontaneity has never created a work of art which possesses a lasting cultural value. The method leading to universal form is based upon calculations of measure and number.

Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual.

In place of the dream, the future will put art on a scientific and technical basis.

We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.

he line has almost become a work of art in itself one can not play with it when the representation of objects perceived was all-important.

When contemplating a work of art it is possible to perceive if it has been created according to the eye or to the spirit, in other words, if it projects three-dimensional reality or spiritual n-dimensionality.