Theo Van Doesburg Quotes

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

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

Art as language....in the future there will only be art. This common language will carry the message of love.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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